The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.
A hospital water system at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow was filled "too early", increasing the opportunity for contamination. The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry heard from a microbiologist that the water system at the hospital was filled more than 12 months before it opened to patients.
Dr Makin, a microbiologist, runs the Makin and Makin Consultancy which provides water quality advice to companies and healthcare facilities and previously worked for the NHS between 1968 and 2010. He was approached by NHS staff in Glasgow in April 2018 and asked to provide advice after contamination was found in the hospital water supply.
Top news stories today “I accept the people who constructed it have to put water in at some point to test whether it’s leaking and that it’s functioning properly so there is a period of time to allow them to do that. Dr Makin said that, in his view, a biocide should be put into the system as soon as it is filled with water to reduce the risk of problems. This could help prevent the accumulation of biofilm – a community of micro-organisms – the inquiry heard.
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