A 10-year-old girl who managed to beat cancer passed away due to infected water at a hospital.
Her mother, Kimberly Darroch, has demanded answers from health chiefs.
The 35-year-old mother also accused health chiefs of a ‘cover up’ over her daughter’s death.
Her daughter, Milly Main, was in remission at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital when she suddenly developed an infection.
According to the Daily Mail, an insider had claimed a child had passed away from a bug linked to the water supply of the hospital.
The whistleblower said an investigation found out about the infection but the parents of the child were not informed about the results.
Miss Darroch said she felt ‘let down’ and ‘lied to’ as she demanded answers from hospital bosses.
Health chiefs have insisted that the water supply is safe and that the source of Milly’s bug can’t be determine as supply testing wasn’t carried out at the time of her death.
But Milly passed away from an infection caused by stenotrophomonas bacteria, which was linked to water supply-related bugs among young patients at the hospital during an investigation one year later.
“I feel let down and lied to. There are no words. I am in shock. She [Milly] was fun, she was adventurous, she just liked a carry on. She never took life too seriously. I think that’s what got her through her treatment. She was very resilient. She was a character,” Miss Darroch expressed.
“She was getting to the stage where she was back to being Milly again and then on July 25 she got the infection and that’s when we lost her.”
The 10-year-old girl contracted an infection from her Hickman line. It is a catheter used for administering chemotherapy.
“When you’ve got a Hickman line, it’s open. She had showers every day in that hospital and I was very strict in cleaning it. Me and Milly cleaned it,” Miss Darroch said.
“The shower heads were changed on more than one occasion and they [staff] were in checking the filters in the room as well.”
She added: “We were told they didn’t know the infection she had and what caused her deterioration. We were never given any clear indication of what caused Milly’s death.”
But the mother got suspicious when she saw that ‘stenotrophomonas’ was listed as the cause of Milly’s death on her death certificate.
“I want an apology. I want them to admit what they have done is wrong – and I want them to admit that they have covered it up. This has just opened it all (the pain of her daughter’s death) up again,” she expressed.
The whistleblower said: “This is a devastating human tragedy. I have promised Milly’s family I will stand by them until they get the answers and justice they deserve, no matter how long it takes.”
He added: “The Health Secretary needs to remember that her job is to protect patients, families and staff, not institutions.”
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