A doctor tells a public inquiry infections at the Glasgow wards were like nothing he had seen before.
By Lisa Summers & Susie ForrestA senior doctor has said the number and type of infections at Glasgow's child cancer wards were unlike anything he had seen before.He was among clinicians giving evidence about infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus .Hospitals inquiry: What is being investigated?
He said: "I'd worked at the Royal London Hospital, at Great Ormond street, and the Royal Marsden Hospital, and had not seen in those hospitals the types and variety of environmental gram negative infections that we were seeing in the new children's hospital in Glasgow."The design and construction of the QEUH campus and its impact on patients are being examined
He told the inquiry that after the wards closed in 2018, he became anxious about the whole hospital estate. She told the inquiry that she had refused to approve plans for the unit at the new hospital because they were not provided with the requested facilities. Prof Gibson said that it was difficult for staff to communicate with families who were already very stressed and confused.
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