Bug caught in ‘different hospital’

A WOMAN died at a Dublin hospital from a superbug she “most likely” contracted at another hospital where she previously was a patient, an inquest had heard.

Bridget Frasier, 82, of Lisle Road, Walkinstown, Dublin, died at Tallaght Hospital on February 13, 2007 after contracting the superbug Clostridium Difficile (C Diff,) most likely when she was a patient at St James’s Hospital in January, Dublin County Coroner’s Court heard.

The inquest was just one of four inquests into deaths of patients who contracted hospital acquired infections and subsequently died.