Multidrug-resistant infections in Sultanah Aminah Hospital

This is absolutely appalling. (Scroll down to the second part of the story in the middle of the page.)

If you don't want to read it here's a quick summary. A woman whose 60-something diabetic father was in Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor complained because a consultant told him he urgently needed a wound debridement surgery, but he was subsequently left in the multidrug-resistant isolation ward for five days with only i.v. antibiotics. He has a multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter infection in the ulcer. A reporter from theSun went to visit them and found that:

• The door of the quarantine ward had a sign saying it should be closed, but it was left open
• another sign said that everyone going in must wear gloves, masks, and aprons, but there weren't any masks or aprons
• there was a pile of used gloves next to the glove box (yay cross-contamination!)
• visitors were ignoring the signs since the protective equipment wasn't there
• even worse, the reporter saw A NURSE AND A DOCTOR!!! walk in, attend to patients, and walk out without putting on the PPE or washing their hands (and the doctor's tudung wasn't tucked into her lab coat, which is effectively the same as a non-Muslim doctor having unbound long hair trailing all over).
• Another guy was there who had been in a road accident and acquired a multidrug-resistant infection from a metal implant in his leg. He's been there with a FRACTURED HAND for over a month. His fiancee said that the quarantined patients appear to have been "forgotten".

This hospital is apparently run by monkeys. Even if the patients weren't KNOWN to have an infectious disease, clinicians are still supposed to wash their hands between patients (I don't use the same gloves for different experiments in the lab).

Let me point out again for the sake of my American readers that Malaysia is not, in terms of technology, resources, or wealth, a backward country. I take every opportunity to smack down the ignoramuses who assume that "developing country" = "1990s Rwanda". We make computers, other electronics, drugs, all kinds of fine consumer products. We have so much. But brains? Who knows.