Medical Safety - Bacterial infection in Turkey causes 40 infant deaths while hospitalized.

Two prenatal units in Turkey had 40 newborns die of bacterial infection.

What hospitals are involved? "In July, the Ankara facility became the scene of any parent's hell. A total of 27 newborns died there within two weeks, most of them from infection.

Now Turkey is reeling from a similar tragedy at another hospital, this time in the western city of Izmir, where 13 premature babies died last weekend within 24 hours, apparently from tainted IV treatment.

What caused the deaths? "A preliminary investigation concluded that the infants died of a bacterial infection spread by IV treatment."

That the report on Turkey's progress towards modernization. You see Turkey wants access to the European union's economy to improve their own. Sort of like the Chinese wanting access to the U.S. economy. The E.U. has been slow to move Turkey along towards membership and now... it should turn glacially slow. I can appreciate a situation where a few babies become ill, but how do so many die? After the first one, then two and three why didn't the hopsital staff go into full alert? What did they do to determine the cause of death and to stop the infection's progress? Obviously, this demonstrates why third-world cultures should not have access to the more developed economies of the world until they show sufficient progress towards regulatory oversight that we are safe.

The recent melamine scare should give us all pause at the grocery store when purchasing food products. In what country was the product manufactured?