First, the hospitals can deep clean all they like but they will not destroy the superbugs MRSA and C-diff.

I was employed for 30 years in the health service, until 1998, as ambulanceman and head porter for Sudbury hospitals. I never heard of these superbugs until 1988, when MRSA infested hospitals up and down the country.

I asked whether we were still using disinfectants, because the smell had vanished from hospitals. "No" was the reply. The Tory government changed from disinfectant to a chloride-based cleaner.

MRSA and C-diff were around in the 1920s. It was not until 1933 that disinfectant was introduced in all hospitals and gradually phased out the superbugs, keeping our hospitals safe, and guess what, antibiotics were not invented then.

It has taken 17 years for C-diff to appear so this points to one thing – these bugs can only be kept under wraps with disinfectants, not destroyed.

Obviously I have taken this up with the Government but I'm afraid it fell on deaf ears.

One consultant from Colchester Hospital assured me not to give up my campaign as what I've said makes sense, but after five years it makes you think.

All I want is for the public to be safer in our hospitals again.

I have heard lots of sad stories of patients having successful operations only to be maimed or lost through these superbugs.

R C SADDINGTON
Great Cornard