Controversy, tragedies, reviews and heartache

MAR 16 2018

Three desperately ill children become infected in cancer wards after bacteria is discovered in the water supply.

AUG 17 2018

Milly Main, 10, dies after picking up stenotrophomonas infection.

DEC 2018

A 10-year-old boy fighting cancer dies of cryptococcus – an infection normally associated with pigeon droppings.

JAN 2019 A 73-year-old woman dies after contracting cryptococcus in the QEUH.

INFECTIONS At the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital JAN 22 2019 Health Secretary Jeane Freeman orders a review of the hospital design.

JAN 23 2019

NHSGGC announces a second infection at the QEUH. Two patients test positive for mucor virus.

FEB 8 2019 One of the patients, Mito Kaur, dies from the infection.

NOV 28 2019

Leaked report shows days after the £842million QEUH opened in 2015, warnings were given about the risk of water contamination.

MAR 20 2021

Review concludes infection “probably” linked to Glasgow’s children’s hospital was the “primary cause of death” of a patient believed to be schoolgirl Milly Main.

MAY 3 2021

Report names Milly, whose mum Kimberly Darroch repeats calls for an FAI into her daughter’s death.