Superbug left victim ‘physically and mentally scarred’
"I started walking around the house, without the aid of a stick, about three weeks ago. My career, as I see it, is over. There is no way I would be able to stand on my feet for eight hours doing my job," he said.
In September 2004, Tony had an operation in a Dublin hospital to improve blood circulation in his legs. The surgery was a 100% success.
"Nine days later, I was discharged and was able to make my own way home under my own steam.
"Four or five days after that, I was in intensive care fighting for my life. I was given about 30% chance of survival.
"I had to have the operation performed again because where the bug attacked was the wound site of the first operation."
His career in ruins, the former food safety auditor claims the country's MRSA problem lies with incompetent hospital management.
"MRSA kills people and the public do not realise the devastation it causes and the cover-ups that are going on.
"We're not talking rocket science, but a basic elementary hygiene audit which deals with the cleanliness of floors, walls, floors, beds, toilets," Tony said.
"Never in the history of the State has so much money been pumped into the health service, so many people employed or so many incompetent hospital managers and staff. Because we're talking basic hygiene here."
Tony had three wounds from the first operation but 15 wounds from the chest down when the second operation became necessary.
"I was up and down to theatre; I wasn't discharged from the hospital until January 11, 2005. And that was from September '04. I was dying every day; I'd come back every day."
Tony had to learn to walk again, leaving hospital on two sticks.
"I take the view I'm back from the dead and there is absolutely no way I am going to let anything go with the MRSA. Because the graveyards are full of people who can't speak up for themselves.
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