‘Poor hospitals put cystic fibrosis sufferers at risk’

CYSTIC FIBROSIS sufferers could catch potentially fatal hospital bugs because there are no isolation facilities for them, an independent review of services has warned.

Lack of segregation from other patients creates significant risks of cross infection from superbugs such as MRSA, said the author of the report, Dr RM Pollock.

St Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin, the National Adult Cystic Fibrosis Referral Centre, comes in for the heaviest criticism. It also treats almost 60% of the country's adult cystic fibrosis sufferers.