Prosecutors say seven deaths now being looked at in connection with Queen Elizabeth university hospital
The deaths of seven patients at Glasgow’s landmark super-hospital are now being investigated, prosecutors have confirmed.
The revelation that another two deaths are being examined after cancer patients, many of them children, contracted infections linked to Queen Elizabeth university hospital’s (QEUH) contaminated water supply and ventilation system, comes after Scottish Labour made public further evidence of political pressure being applied to open the campus in April 2015, just before the general election.
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said on Saturday that the cases of 23-year-old Molly Cuddihy and Andrew Slorance, a former Scottish government civil servant, were among those being looked at and it pledged to keep their families informed of progress.
Cuddihy, who was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer at the age of 15, was treated at the royal hospital for children and the adjacent QEUH, which are both part of a six-year public inquiry that reached its final stages last month. She died last August, her organs irreparably weakened by the powerful drugs used to combat the infections as well as her cancer treatment.
