New machine gives MRSA test results ‘within hours’

FAMILIES who have lost loved ones to the MRSA superbug want every hospital to get a new kind of machine that can detect the lethal illness within hours.

The MRSA and Families campaign group wants every patient tested upon arrival at hospital as part of the fight to rid wards of the bug, which can maim and kill.

Group founder Margaret Dawson said current tests on patients with suspected MRSA can take five days.