Work to clean up a hospital bacteria outbreak inadvertently led to more contamination, new documents reveal.
Brain surgery was postponed at Edinburgh’s Western General in March after a small number of patients contracted the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bug from showers and taps in a ward.
A decontamination programme was ordered by NHS Lothian.
But documents released by health watchdogs show this work is believed to have caused further problems.
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) papers show a shower in the hospital’s department of clinical neurosciences twice tested negative for the bacteria following the outbreak, and patients were allowed to keep using it.
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