Hospitals transmit deadly infections due to problems of hygiene and crowding
More Poles die as the result of diseases contracted in Polish hospitals
than in car accidents. Ten thousand patients out of total of 5 million
died in Poland in 1998 as the result of infections contracted in
hospitals. Scientists warn that hospital personnel transmit more than 90%
of such diseases, perhaps because the average nurse in Poland has dozens
of patients. (Zycie, pp.1,5)
