Posted on: Friday, 25 July 2008, 15:01 CDT By Gareth Rose SUPERBUGS have been recorded as contributing to the deaths of 375 people in Lothian hospitals over the past seven years, according to newly published figures. The Scottish Government statistics taken from death registers reveal the scale of the challenge faced by medics in combating MRSA and C. diff. NHS Lothian is attempting to crack down on both, and says its record has improved in the last two years. Health chiefs also believe there has been inaccurate reporting of superbug deaths by junior doctors and that the true figure is much lower. C. diff, which in roughly a quarter of cases is caught in the community rather than hospitals, has become the most feared superbug in Scotland - even though 86 per cent of people who catch it recover. An outbreak at the Vale of...
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