The B.C. government said on Monday that measures to control the high rate of C. difficile infections at Burnaby General Hospital are now being taken, but a grieving family is wondering whether the plan has come too late.

Bhinder Rampuri died at Burnaby General Hospital last month, just days after receiving his third C. difficile infection. He had spent eight months in the hospital.

Roger Rampuri said his father had multiple health problems, so it is uncertain how big of a role the superbug played in his father's death. However, he is outraged that hospital authorities could have known about the high rate of C. difficile infections and did not warn patients.

"If C. diff attributed to my father's death, we want to know," he said. "We want to know why, if the government and the hospitals knew [about the infection], why the information wasn't given to the public?"

C. difficile is a potentially fatal bowel infection. Last week, Burnaby General Hospital doctors sounded the alarm about the high rate of infection and deaths after a letter that they wrote in January to the Fraser Health Authority came to light. The doctors said that 84 people have died from infection in the last two and a half years.

NDP leader Adrian Dix accused the Liberal government of not providing adequate information to the public about problems at Burnaby General Hospital. But Health Minister Mike de Jong said since 2009, the rate of infection there has gone down by 40 per cent. He also said aging infrastructure and insufficient bathrooms and hand washing facilities are partly to blame for the high C. difficile infection rates. Redesigning the hospital could halt contagion, he said.

"If you have four patients in a room, as opposed to one patient or two patients, they're sharing a bathroom and that's a challenge," he said.

Nigel Murray, CEO of the Fraser Health Institute, said a plan to make the hospital safer is now in place. The plan includes an emphasis on hand washing, changing cleaning practices and re-deploying staff.

With files from CTV British Columbia's Bhinder Sajan