Patient scrubs down dirty hospital ward

Published: July 3, 2009 at 1:54 AM

COLCHESTER, England, July 3 (UPI) -- A housecleaner was so shocked by the dirt in the English hospital ward where she was a patient, she said, she got out of bed and began dusting and mopping.

Tereza Tosbell used hand towels from the bathroom and anti-bacterial cleaner she found at the foot of her bed in Colchester General Hospital, The Daily Mail reported Thursday. She did this even though she was attached to a drip, which she pulled along as she cleaned.

"It was shameful to see how sloppy the cleaners were while I was there. I was not prepared to put up with such conditions," she said. "The nurses and other staff saw what I was doing but just left me to get on with it."

She said even her 22-year-old son commented on how dirty the ward was when he came to visit and said it must have been really filthy for a university student to notice.

Tosbell spent four days in the hospital being treated for an abscess in her neck.

A spokesman denied the hospital takes a cavalier attitude to housekeeping.

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