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November, 27

The virus which has haunted the Scottish hospitals from a long time is still making the life of patients restless. The deadly infectious Clostridium difficile is at present the major focus for the hospital authorities and health departments. It is known that, the fight against superbugs is going on since a long time. Moving a step further the government has come up with an ambitious £54 million plan to tackle this deadly illness. It is fact that till now this infection has claimed many lives and still remains to a big distress for patients and their wards in and around Scotland.

Expressing her side Nicola Sturgeon, the Health Secretary said taking in to count the pain people are going through due to this bug such as MRSA, the announcement came of a raft of measures to curb the infection which affects about one in ten hospital patients in Scotland. This ambitious plan has received welcome from all corners, but the main area to be considered is the massive funding which would be required to execute this plan. The government has chalked down the investments in two phases, around £7 million would be utilized for a one-year pilot of the programme in 2008-09. While £16 million a year will be roll out nationally from 2009-10. All these plans are aimed to out throw this deadly bug completely from Scotland.

Taking in to count the problem faced in the diagnosis of the patients suffering from superbugs, Ms Sturgeon announced to open up a new C difficile reference lab at Glasgow to provide the right treatment to the patients. The government will also check the hygiene levels the hospitals at regular intervals and see whether they are following the required standards. All hospitals are expected to achieve about 90 percent compliance during the spot-checks conducted by the Health Protection Scotland.

The government has pulled up their socks and is all set to fight strongly against this deadly threat to patients and would try all measures to overcome this problem soon, to make Scotland free from Superbugs.

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