Hygiene in hospitals

Madam, - I find it incredible, in this day and age, that there is a need for a television appeal urging medically trained people…

Madam, - I find it incredible, in this day and age, that there is a need for a television appeal urging medically trained people to wash their hands.

If this basic discipline is neglected, should we be surprised that bugs flourish in our hospitals?

Joseph Lister must be spinning in his grave that such a situation could exist, side by side with the sophisticated skills acquired over the past 150 years.

- Yours, etc,

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PETER F. McINTYRE, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.