This is OUTRAGEOUS!

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Did you know that in the USA, every year, there are about 200,000 PREVENTABLE deaths, most of which are medical errors. That is equivalent to three airliners crashing every day with no survivors. Can you even imagine that? But, because these deaths happen one at a time, for a variety of reasons, the public is not made aware of these deaths. One of the common causes of these deaths is HOSPITAL-AQUIRED infections. Do you know what that means? It means, that a person might go into the hospital for surgery or illness and while that person is in the hospital, he/she acquires an infection from some source of unclean surroundings. If this were the 19th century, we could expect such things to happen and they DID happen, because no one knew that bacteria even existed. But, there is no excuse for that happening NOW. Unfortunately, some hospital workers are to blame for most of these infections, because they are not meticulous in cleaning and sanitizing surgical tools, breathing tubes and other paraphernalia that is hooked up to or used on and around patients. Carelessness, system failures and health-care associated conditions are to blame for many preventable deaths. I personally know of two persons, my sister-in-law who died from infection following surgery on a broken leg. And another person who died following a hospital stay for another situation. Both deaths could have been prevented if the hospitals involved had been CLEAN. Both died of infections they acquired AT THE HOSPITAL. This is truly outrageous! What do you think? Picture by Pixabay