NHS SUES SCANDAL HOSPITAL BUILDERS
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BY VIVIENNE AITKEN Health editor
A HEALTH board is suing the firms involved in the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for £73million.
Listed in the summons are 11 areas where NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde says there are issues in commissioning, design, or building stages – including the water system which parents have linked to the deaths of two children.
It also outlines ventilation defects including in one of the children’s hospital cancer wards and the bone marrow transplant ward.
The Record told in December how NHSGGC had begun legal action against Brookfield Multiplex, which designed and built the £842million QEUH.
Yesterday, it confirmed it had served the summons on Multiplex, Capita Property and Infrastructure Ltd and Currie and Brown UK Limited for losses and damages incurred due to technical issues in QEUH and the Royal Hospital for Children.
Since opening in 2015, the hospital has had problems with £10m micro-organisms linked to water quality and ventilation systems and has been the subject of reviews by the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate and Health Protection Scotland.
Last year, two patients died from a fungal infection linked to pigeon droppings and another patient from a separate
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hospital-acquired infection a few months later.
At the end of last year, we told of claims that a doctor-led probe at the QEUH found 26 cases of child cancer patients acquiring water infections in 2017.
Two kids who died – Milly Main, 10, and Mason Djemat, three – were treated on a ward