Hospital accused of covering up MRSA case negligence

A CORK hospital has been accused of trying to cover up negligence by not allowing staff to be interviewed, following the death of man who contracted MRSA in its care.

The Mercy University Hospital is expected to be asked in the High Court, on Monday, to make available to solicitors the staff who treated MRSA victim Valentine Ryan from Carrigaline, Co Cork.

According to legal documents submitted on behalf of his wife, Eileen, the deceased had been admitted to hospital to undergo tests for a kidney infection in February 2002. Mrs Eileen Ryan stated, in an affidavit, that her husband had a catheter inserted which was infected with hospital superbug MRSA and his condition deteriorated to such an extent he suffered renal failure and died on April 25, 2002.