Seven deaths linked to infections at a Scots superhospital are now being investigated by prosecutors. Details of the circumstances surrounding the deaths , which took place at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, have been passed on to teams at Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS). Of the deaths to be investigated include Tony Dynes, a 65-year-old dad from East Kilbride, who died in 2021 after contracting two infections while being treated for lymphoma. The case of 10-year-old cancer patient Milly Main , who died in 2017 after being infected with a bacteria linked to the water system, is also being investigated alongside 73-year-old Gail Armstrong, two unnamed children and Scots civil servant Andrew Slorance. The official, from Edinburgh, died in 2020 after contracting Covid while awaiting a bone marrow transplant. The father of five had also been infected by Aspergillus. The BBC now reports that the case of 23-year-old Molly Cuddihy, who died last August, has also been passed on to COPFS. A spokesperson for COPFS said: “A thorough and independent investigation into the deaths is ongoing and the families will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.” It comes after health chiefs at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde admitted a probable link between dirty water and the deaths of child cancer patients at the hospital earlier this month. The admission, made to a public inquiry into the QEUH, was issued after years of denial. The COPFS investigation into the deaths could result in the health board being prosecuted for corporate homicide or under health and safety laws. Probes into the deaths of Andrew Slorance, Tony Dynes and Molly Cuddihy remain at an early stage. Molly’s father, John, a former police officer, told the BBC: “When I first raised concerns with the authorities many years ago, I had no thought that those concerns would one day involve my daughter’s death. That continues to be deeply difficult but my only focus is ensuring the full facts are established through the independent investigation now under way.” Meanwhile, a whistleblowing doctor who helped to expose the infection scandal has said she fears it remains unsafe. Dr Christine Peters, a consultant microbiologist who first raised concerns over a decade ago, branded NHSGGC a “malevolent organisation” and does not believe it has changed. Asked whether she was satisfied the hospital was now safe, she told the Sunday Times, “No, I’m not”. She said: “There is a gap in the evidence currently , which is that there is no validation for every area of the hospital available.” “There are big parts of the hospital that have not been covered in the discussion. There are treatment rooms, outpatient clinics, renal suites, day surgery suites, there are huge parts of radiology, there are huge parts of the hospital that have not come under specific scrutiny. “That seems to be a very basic request, that ten years after the hospital was opened, what paperwork can you show us that demonstrates the actual state of play of every single part of the hospital? It’s clear from the evidence to the inquiry there is a gap, and that I think needs to be filled.”

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