McGuinty's Liberal negligence in 2008 contributed to Niagara's C. difficile deaths in 2011

Further to the July 9, 2011 St.Catharines Standard story which I examined in my earlier post, let's have a quick look at a portion of  Grant Lafleche's report (...and don't worry, folks: Lafleche carefully crafted his story to make sure that Jim Bradley is not mentioned; can't have that... gosh... one day, Ole Grant will WIN AWARDS for his 'heroic work'... must vomit now.) :

"...Twelve of the C. diff deaths occurred in St. Catharines. Of the 21, 20 were outbreak patients who contracted the illness in hospital. The other was a community-acquired infection.
[Sue] Matthews also said an epidemiologist from the Public Health Agency of Canada will spend the next three weeks in Niagara examining the NHS outbreak data. The doctor will look at how the health system collects and uses information and might offer recommendations on how to improve it to better see developing trends in the hospital and infection control measures.
Matthews said she hopes the epidemiologist might be able to shed some light on the origins of the outbreak. According to Ministry of Health and Long Term Care data prior to the end of May, St. Catharines General had a C. difficile infection rate that was the same as other Ontario hospitals of similar size.
That changed drastically with the outbreak.
"So we are hoping the epidemiologist can help us understand what happened," Matthews said..."
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So: now we see that the NHS is bringing in epidemiologists  - after 21 Niagara patients have died - to help the NHS "understand what happened".

This statement in 2011 from the NHS's boss Sue Matthews is pathetically revealing, because - as I detailed in  Liberals lied; C.diff-patients died - Dalton McGuinty had ALREADY promised and reassured Ontarians back in 2008 that  "hospitals now know how to protect against the spread of C. difficile" !!!

This is EXACTLY what McGuinty had told us in 2008 - when he and George Smitherman and Jim Bradley and Kim Craitor were hiding from a public inquiry into the hundreds of C. difficile deaths in the Liberal's health-care monopoly. There is your smoking gun, with Dalton McGuinty's ideological fingerprints all over it.

If what McGuinty had said in 2008 was true (...that his Liberal-run monopoly's hospitals "know how to protect against the spread of C. difficile"...) then why are specialists now being called to Niagara in 2011????

Where was this 'knowledge' and this 'protection' in 2011, which McGuinty had promised in 2008?

Dalton, the lying Liberal bastard, told us his Liberal experts knew all there is to know about C. difficile!!

Go ahead: read Keith Leslie's Sept.24, 2008 Toronto Star report !!

"Premier Dalton McGuinty rejected Opposition demands for an independent investigation into C. difficile deaths in Ontario hospitals today, insisting there is nothing more to be learned about how to prevent the spread of the infectious disease.

Progressive Conservative health critic Elizabeth Witmer wanted to know why the Liberal government is "stonewalling" the public's right to know the full extent of the deadly outbreak by blocking an investigation.

"What are you afraid of?" Witmer asked McGuinty in the legislature. "We have over 500 deaths in just a fraction of our hospitals and you refuse to take action."

The Conservatives say C. difficile has killed more than 500 people in only 22 of Ontario's 157 hospitals, and they want a 30- to 90-day investigation to find the true extent of the problem across the province, noting the Liberals haven't backed away from other inquiries.

"They support the listeriosis inquiry (after 18 deaths). They called for the SARS inquiry – that was 44 deaths," Witmer said. "We know there were more than 500 deaths from C. difficile, and yet they don't want to get to the root cause.

"It demonstrates negligence and I think it demonstrates a lack of understanding that the public has a right to know why these people died. People are going into the hospital for elective surgery and they're dying of C. difficile. Why?"

McGuinty said hospitals now know how to protect against the spread of C. difficile, and he noted that medical experts say an inquiry would not tell them anything they don't already know.

"The experts that we hear from, both here in Ontario and from south of the border, (say) we have a good understanding of C. difficile and the manner in which it is spread," McGuinty told the legislature.

"The next thing that we could and must do is to make information public about the incidents of C. difficile in our hospitals, and that's what we plan to do."

All hospitals in Ontario will be required to report the number of C. difficile cases – but not deaths – starting later this month.

But Witmer said that should have been made a mandatory requirement when the infectious disease first appeared in the province five years ago, and it still won't reveal how the outbreak started.

"In Quebec they started this mandatory reporting four years ago," she said. "This government has known since the fall of 2003 when there was an outbreak in Peterborough that C. difficile was present in this province. They've been warned for five years to deal with it and they haven't."

The New Democrats want Ontario's ombudsman to have oversight of hospitals so he can look into complaints from families who have lost loved ones to C. difficile and help prevent more outbreaks in the future, but they may end up supporting the Conservatives' demand for an investigation.

"We're bordering on siding with the Conservatives; it all depends on how many new cases are unveiled and how much more we learn (when the mandatory reporting starts)," said NDP health critic France Gelinas.

"If we start to see other hospitals having similar problems ... then it would be warranted."

The above story ran on Sept.24, 2008.
The criminal Liberal heath-care monopolist Dalton McGuinty LIED about the true state of his health monopoly. He COVERED UP his own health monopoly's deficiencies.

You have to simply shake your head in disbelief at the massive Liberal lie, the horrendous Liberal disinformation, the utterly cruel monopolist ideology at work behind all this.

McGuinty, the secretive Liberal scumbag, refused to call a public C. difficile inquiry in 2008, claiming at the time that there was no need for any investigation because his Liberal health-monopoly's experts already had a  "good understanding of C. difficile and the manner in which it is spread".

Yet, now: everything the NHS's boss, Sue Matthews, is telling us in 2011, contradicts what Dalton McGuinty claimed in 2008!! 
NOW WE SEE THAT LIBERAL SCUMBAG McGUINTY was NEGLIGENT in 2008, falsely claiming that his healthcare monopoly was prepared to deal with C. difficile.
McGuinty's Liberal criminals GAMBLED with PATIENT'S LIVES, lying to Ontarians (who are trapped in McGuinty's no-other-choice-monopoly) that there was nothing to worry about in 2008!! 

Where were these epidemiologists back in 2008 - when McGuinty was hiding from a public inquiry; when McGuinty was smugly, dismissively (...and negligently...) telling us there was nothing new to know about C. diff???

McGuinty's Liberals have perpetrated an outright NEGLIGENT FRAUD. These Liberal FLICKERS were lying. The only thing that McGuinty's Liberals cared about protecting wasn't patients - it was about protecting their own Gritty asses from external scrutiny.

No wonder the Bradley Bum Wipers at the St.Catharines Standard so studiously avoid mentioning  their local Liberal hero Bradley, or his Liberal government's culpability in the deaths at the NHS.

Ohhhh... sigh... if only Harris was in power today, instead of the Heroic Liberal Prince McGuinty... how much easier the media's populist narrative would have been; how perfect it would have been for the Liberal-friendly press... the Standard and Niagara This Week would be manufacturing smug-outrage on a 24/7 basis, packaging papers with heapin'-helpin's of indignation, smothered in sanctimony, about how Ontario's negligent monopolist government WAS KILLING PATIENTS IN NIAGARA!! They'd be hounding the local government MPP's day and night, demanding answers to pointed questions.

But, seeing that it's McGuinty's Liberals, along with Good Ole Jimmy, who are in charge... well, then... uhh... umm... it's best not to focus on that... and leave Jim Bradley out of all this.
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so... uhh... Vote for Jim Bradley - and vote often.
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