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Hannah Rodger

Safety devices missing from ward at scandal-hit Scots hospital where young girl died

Safety devices to protect patients from infections at a scandal-hit hospital were missing in a ward treating a five-year-old girl who later died.

Emily McDowall was at the Royal Hospital for Children (RHC) in Glasgow last year, after developing an infection, when her family noticed leaking air conditioning and missing water filters in her room.

The youngster’s family previously told the Sunday Mail about their ordeal at the facility, part of the £842million Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus, when Emily was misdiagnosed with cancer and suffered infections as a patient.

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