Call for new C.diff inquiry
HEALTH Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to act after it emerged the C.diff bug killed 28 people in two years in the same hospital.
Yesterday’s revelation of the deaths at Glasgow’s Gartnavel Hospital prompted MSP Patricia Ferguson to demand answers as to how they were allowed to occur.
The health board that serves Gartnavel, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde also covers Vale of Leven Hospital in Alexandria.
Nine people died from the bug there in a six-month outbreak last year, prompting Ms Sturgeon to order an inquiry.
Labour health spokeswoman Cathy Jamieson said: “Nicola Sturgeon needs to get a grip on hospital-acquired infections .”