Mould found at QEUH hospital in Glasgow, says health secretary

Mould growth has been found in a cancer ward at a scandal-hit Glasgow hospital, the health secretary has confirmed. Some rooms on the adult bone marrow transplant unit at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) were sealed off last month due to "potential water ingress". Neil Gray told MSPs at that mould growth had been found in one of the closed rooms. The hospital, one of the largest in the UK, is subject to a national inquiry which was ordered in 2019 after a number of deaths and high levels of infection. In January, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde admitted to the inquiry that infections of some child cancer patients were probably linked to a hospital water system. The health board said it had an "active incident management team" at the ward and patient safety was its priority. Gray was responding to Scottish Conservative MSP Meghan Gallacher's questions about water ingress issues at the hospital. He said: "In the interests of full transparency, I am making Parliament aware that this morning it was confirmed that a swab taken from room 85, which was closed on 19 February, has shown mould growth. "As colleagues would expect, I have made it clear to Greater Glasgow and Clyde

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