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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9888

24 April 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/health
Parliament calls for 20% cut in hospital infections - Androulla Vassiliou says this is too high

Strasbourg, 23/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - By landslide vote (521 to 6 with 5 abstentions), the European Parliament adopted a report on Thursday 23 April 2009 by Forza Italia MEP Amalia Sartori on the draft Council recommendation on patient safety, including the prevention of hospital-related infections ('superbugs'). The EP is calling for a 20% reduction in the number of patients contracting hospital-related infections (in other words 900,000 cases a year by 2015) and to this end, it is...

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