Third baby dies after contracting an infection at the hospital

A third baby died after contracting a rare blood infection at a Glasgow maternity hospital.

In January, it was revealed that two premature babies had died at Princes Royal Maternity Hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the third child was extremely poor at the time of birth and that Staphylococcus aureus infection was one of the death factors.

No other patient has been tested positive for infection since March.

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Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that is found on the skin and in the nasal pbadages of about one in four people and that causes infection only when it enters the body.

In January, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that a third child was receiving treatment after also contracting the blood infection as a result of the deaths of both babies.

Skin cleansing agent

By the time they set up an incident management team (IMT) to investigate the cases. IMT includes specialized clinicians, infection control physicians and nurses, occupational health clinicians, and field and facility colleagues.

In a statement released Wednesday, the health commission said: "As previously stated, we rigorously manage a number of rare cases of bloodstream infection with Staphylococcus aureus in extremely premature infants in the US. neonatal unit of Princess Royal Maternity Hospital.

"Three babies, who were extremely poor because of their very early birth, unfortunately died and the infection was one of many contributing causes of their deaths."

The health authority said that a staff and family screening program had been set up at the hospital as part of a number of measures taken to deal with to the infection.

They added: "As it was an extremely rare strain, highly resistant to both antibiotics normally prescribed for S. aureus and to the skin cleansing agent commonly used in hospitals of the USSR. In the United Kingdom, we have implemented a number of additional infection control measures, including the prescription of different antibiotics and the introduction of a new skin cleansing agent. "

The hospital, which did not disclose when his baby died, said the source of the infection in the intensive care unit could never be known.