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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Scottish health board admits hospital water system linked to fatal infections

Milly Main and Kimberly Darroch smile as Darroch takes a selfie of them both
Milly Main, left, who died in hospital in 2017 after contracting an infection as she recovered from leukaemia treatment, with her mother, Kimberly Darroch. Photograph: Kimberly Darroch/PA

Scotland’s largest health board has finally admitted that contaminated water at a Glasgow super-hospital caused serious infections in child cancer patients that were linked to four deaths.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) made the dramatic U-turn in closing submissions to a long-running inquiry that was launched after deaths linked to infections, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main, who died in August 2017 after contracting an infection as she recovered from leukaemia treatment.

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