Sink taps were the source of an infection that killed three babies at a Belfast hospital, Northern Ireland’s health minister has said.
Edwin Poots told the Northern Ireland assembly that the Pseudomonas bacteria originated in taps in the neonatal unit at the Royal Jubilee maternity hospital.
The ward has been deep cleaned after six babies were found to be infected with the bug. Three babies have died due to the infection and a fourth died of a related infection at Altnagelvin hospital in Derry.
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