Toxic dust from a demolition site next to Scotland’s flagship hospital caused water supply contamination which led to deadly infections in patients. Bombshell documents point to safety at the £842million super hospital in Glasgow being compromised before it even opened in June 2015.
The site – which includes the Royal Hospital for Sick Children – was being built at the same time as the Southern General Hospital it replaced was being demolished next to it.
Consultant clinical scientist Susanne Lee, commissioned to carry out an independent probe into the water system in 2018, found it was already poisoned by bacteria, likely caused by dust from the adjacent demolition.
