Baby deaths bug in Belfast hospital traced to taps

A killer infection that claimed the lives of three babies in a Belfast hospital has been traced to taps in the neo-natal unit, the North's health minister said.

Baby deaths bug in Belfast hospital traced to taps

A killer infection that claimed the lives of three babies in a Belfast hospital has been traced to taps in the neo-natal unit, the North's health minister said.

All the taps and connected pipe work in the room at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital are to be removed as experts try to eradicate all traces of the pseudomonas bacteria, Edwin Poots told the Stormont Assembly.

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