Successful medical negligence claim for MRSA

Many cases of MRSA, have been attributed to an unsatisfactory level of hospital, and hospital staff, cleanliness.

Medical journalist W. Gifford-Jones has commented on the subject, saying, "In 1846 when the first obstetrical hospital was opened in Vienna, one in eight pregnant women died from puerperal fever.

"Professor Ignacz Semmelweiss dramatically ended these deaths by demanding that doctors wash their hands after doing an autopsy and before delivering a baby.

"Doctors, even infectious disease specialists, often fail to wash their hands, spreading germs from one patient to another."

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In February 2005 we received a call from a young woman who developed MRSA when she had an operation to remove her appendix. It was found that she sustained the superbug while in hospital as a result of medical negligence.

A thorough investigation found that the patient had contracted MRSA, a superbug which affects the bloodstreams of weak, recovering patients and spreads furiously through the body and on to other patients. It was thought that the young woman's post-operative wound became infected sometime during her stay in hospital after her operation was performed.

As soon as MRSA was diagnosed the young woman was isolated to limit the risk of other patients becoming infected. She was put on a high dose of antibiotics for several weeks until doctors could be sure that she had regained full health.

After learning that she had sustained the life-threatening superbug and spending several months in rehabilitation, the young woman looked for personal injury claim firms that deal with medical negligence claims and came across YouClaim, the no win, no fee claim experts.

She contacted one of our claim advisors via e-chat and asked her about our services. The young woman was informed that we had helped many people to claim medical negligence compensation against the organisation responsible for their illness or personal injury and that we have a fantastic success rate. We assured her that as well as working on a no win, no fee basis for all types of personal injury claim we also guarantee not to charge our customers a penny for solicitors' fees, regardless of whether their case is a success or not.

With this in mind, the young woman went ahead and made a £13,000 medical negligence claim against the hospital where she contracted the disease. Her claim was a success and included compensation for the antibiotics she was prescribed as well as lost earnings as she was only covered by statutory sick pay for a short while.

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If you have contracted a disease during a stay in hospital, suffered a birth injury or any other medical mishap as a result of medical negligence then you may well be in a position to make a compensation claim.

YouClaim are the no win, no fee personal injury claim specialists and we have an affiliation with a panel of some of the finest personal injury solicitors in the industry. We will assign you the most suitable compensation solicitor to your case and they will strive to get you the most money available for your personal injury claim.

Your personal injury solicitor will talk you through each stage of your claim in plain English, without using complex legal jargon and will be at hand to offer you free legal advice and answer any questions and queries along the way.

If you would like to find out more about our services online you can talk with one of our friendly claim advisors via e-chat. To arrange for us to call you back at the time most convenient for you drop us a call back request. To make a medical negligence claim straight away send us an online claim assessment form or give us a call for free on 0800 10 757 95.