Nuns knew how to deal with hospital bugs

I REFER to Catherine Shanahan’s report headlined ‘Seven die from MRSA superbug in 10 days’ (Irish Examiner, November 22).

Without a doubt, there has been a falling away in hygiene standards in Irish hospitals and care facilities. I think this fact was tragically illustrated by the events at Leas Cross nursing home. Somebody has lowered the bar considerably with regard to what is an acceptable standard of hygiene, and raised it to an unacceptable level with regard to what is not.

But who? I remember a time when the standard was high, and nothing less was acceptable.