The patient’s mother also pointed to issues with Ward 6 in the adult hospital where her daughter was moved to after rooms at the children’s hospital were closed due to water contamination issues. “To find out the hospital has inflicted more pain and could have taken our child’s life is devastating.” She said: “When you’re faced with something (the infection) that’s very rare and told that the doctors don’t actually know if they can fight the infection and it’s caused by a hospital that should be safe and there to protect some of the sickest children in Scotland is horrendous. She told the inquiry she was aware about water issues in Ward 2A of the RCH, but was told “umpteen times” that other areas of the hospital were safe. “It concluded that the infection has had a severe impact on my daughter’s life, and it is continuing to have a severe impact on her life.” She said: “The panel found that it was very highly probable that the mycobacterium infection came from the water supply in the operating theatre in the RHC. Speaking at the inquiry in person, the patient’s mum spoke about an independent case note review that looked into how her daughter contracted the infection. Three years on, the mother said her daughter is still suffering with the infection, which she claims doctors said could take up to five years to fight off.
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