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No thought given to warning public at the height of 2012 C. difficile crisis at Burnaby Hospital
As the infection killed people, Fraser Health was in high gear trying to stop it but documents show no one even talked about a public alert
Lori Culbert , Vancouver Sun / Burnaby Now
December 16, 2013 10:23 AM
As Fraser Health struggled to suppress an alarming C. difficile outbreak in Burnaby Hospital, there was never a discussion about warning the public, documents reveal.
Nearly 1,900 pages of reports and communications among health board and provincial government employees ? obtained by The Sun through a freedom of information request ? reveal how officials responded to the crisis in March 2012.
Emails flew internally about curbing the hospital?s rate of infections with the C. diff. bacteria ? said then to be two to three times the national average ? but there was no mention of steering patients away from the troubled hospital...
No thought given to warning public at the height of 2012 C. difficile crisis at Burnaby Hospital
As the infection killed people, Fraser Health was in high gear trying to stop it but documents show no one even talked about a public alert
Lori Culbert , Vancouver Sun / Burnaby Now
December 16, 2013 10:23 AM
As Fraser Health struggled to suppress an alarming C. difficile outbreak in Burnaby Hospital, there was never a discussion about warning the public, documents reveal.
Nearly 1,900 pages of reports and communications among health board and provincial government employees ? obtained by The Sun through a freedom of information request ? reveal how officials responded to the crisis in March 2012.
Emails flew internally about curbing the hospital?s rate of infections with the C. diff. bacteria ? said then to be two to three times the national average ? but there was no mention of steering patients away from the troubled hospital...