By late 2019, the growing scandal was being discussed in the Scottish Parliament where Anas Sarwar, now the Scottish Labour leader, raised the case of Milly Main. <\/p>\n
He had obtained leaked reports which showed experts were warning about the safety of the water system even as the hospital was accepting its first patients.<\/p>\n
With public concern mounting and a ventilation problem delaying the opening of a separate hospital in Edinburgh, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman ordered a public inquiry into their design, construction commissioning and maintenance.<\/p>\n
That inquiry, now drawing to close after six years, has heard from 186 witnesses, painting a picture of what some clinicians described as a “defensive” management culture at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.<\/p>\n
One microbiologist, Dr Teresa Inkster, said she felt discouraged from speaking up at infection control meetings. <\/p>\n
Another microbiologist and senior doctor, Christine Peters, said she was advised by a senior colleague to “pipe down” or she would find things “hard” professionally.<\/p>\n
She has previously told BBC News she had been flagging concerns about the buildings since 2014 and was advised not to put anything in writing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By late 2019, the growing scandal was being discussed in the Scottish Parliament where Anas Sarwar, now the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-399244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}