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ContributedTony and Maureen Dynes. Contributed<\/p>\nA widow whose husband died after contracting infections while being treated at Glasgow\u2019s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has said she may \u201cnever know the exact truth\u201d about what happened.<\/p>\n
Tony Dynes, who had lymphoma, died in May 2021 after being admitted for treatment at the hospital campus.<\/p>\n
His death is one of six being further investigated amid ongoing concerns over the hospital\u2019s safety and ventilation system.<\/p>\n
Tony\u2019s wife, childminder Maureen Dynes, says she only discovered the extent of her husband\u2019s infections after his death and still has unanswered questions about how he became unwell.<\/p>\n
ContributedTony and Maureen Dynes. Contributed<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll never know the exact truth of what happened,\u201d she told STV News. \u201cNobody knows if he hadn\u2019t contracted infections, whether he would have survived his cancer treatment, whether it would have been successful.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody knows, but if it was safe and the water was safe, how did he contract this infection?\u201d<\/p>\n
Tony was first admitted to the QEUH in September 2020 for a stem cell transplant. While on the ward, he twice contracted aspergillus \u2013 an infection associated with dust and soil.<\/p>\n
In March the following year, Tony returned for immunotherapy. Unknown to Maureen at the time, he developed another bacterial infection and never came home.<\/p>\n
Maureen said Tony\u2019s health deteriorated rapidly after learning his cancer treatment had not worked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Tony was told that his cancer treatment hadn\u2019t worked, he said he wanted to go home,\u201d Maureen explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went downhill really, really quickly and within a day or two, he said he wanted to stay in the hospital. His speech wasn\u2019t great, and he said, \u2018because I feel safe\u2019. I think he\u2019d be saddened that he wasn\u2019t told the truth.\u201c<\/p>\n
Months after Tony\u2019s funeral, Maureen said a press conference prompted her to look again at what happened \u2013 and to review her husband\u2019s medical notes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember it as clear as day,\u201d she said. \u201cI was in the kitchen, and I ran in and rewound the news. I thought that\u2019s the same time as Tony. I still didn\u2019t know what Aspergillus was then. How many other people out there don\u2019t know?\u201d<\/p>\n
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She said she then discovered details in his file that she believes should have been communicated to the family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a note in Tony\u2019s file, and it said Public Health England. I thought that\u2019s really unusual. Why are we getting a test result from a laboratory in England?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt said Stenotrophomonas maltophilia on it, and I was like \u2018wow\u2019. So that was when I discovered that one. But no contact at all from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The infection Stenotrophomonas maltophilia has previously been linked to the QEUH site.<\/p>\n
Ten-year-old Milly Main contracted the same infection four years earlier at the children\u2019s hospital on the campus.<\/p>\n
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has accepted that the hospital\u2019s water system probably caused some infections in child patients, but it has not made the same admission in relation to adults.<\/p>\n
Questions raised at Holyrood<\/p>\n
Concerns about safety standards at the hospital have been repeatedly raised at Holyrood this week.<\/p>\n
Both NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Scottish Government have denied that there was political pressure to open the hospital campus before it was ready in 2015.<\/p>\n
Lord Brodie, who is chairing the inquiry, has also been asked to consider reopening proceedings to take further evidence from former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, as well as former health and finance secretaries.<\/p>\n
Maureen said she wants accountability but does not want any reopening of the inquiry to delay the process indefinitely.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt has to have an end. But I think that they can add some supplementary evidence. So maybe they could be questioned, but I don\u2019t want this to mean that the inquiry takes years and years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the closing statement, GGC said the hospital is safe, but I don\u2019t believe it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said families affected by the issues at the hospital feel the impact is far from over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels as though we are still carrying about a huge, heavy weight on our shoulders. It is as if I\u2019m constantly walking about with a backpack full of bricks.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people keep saying \u2018oh that\u2019s the end\u2019 and I\u2019m like \u2018no\u2019, it\u2019s just really starting now.\u201c<\/p>\n
Tony recorded a lockdown video during the coronavirus pandemic to help cheer others up while he was shielding.<\/p>\n
And Maureen, who worked alongside her husband, said the children she looks after still talk about Tony \u2013 a man she describes as the love of her life and her best friend.<\/p>\n
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has been calling for the inquiry chairman, Lord Brodie, to consider the actions of the Scottish Government in the commissioning, construction and opening of the QEUH.<\/p>\n
He produced a document at FMQs on Thursday that\u00a0he said showed there was \u201cpolitical pressure\u201d to open the hospital.<\/p>\n
Sarwar also accused First Minister John Swinney of misleading the Scottish Parliament, saying he \u201cfabricated\u201d a quote from the counsel to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry.<\/p>\n
In response, Swinney said the inquiry\u2019s counsel had said there was no political pressure to open the hospital on time.<\/p>\n
He told MSPs on Thursday: \u201cThe counsel to the inquiry said on the 23rd of January, in the summary, there is no evidence of external pressure on NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to open the hospital early or before it was ready to be opened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what the counsel to the inquiry has said, and (inquiry chairman) Lord Brodie is obviously considering all of these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
No deadline has been set for the delivery of Lord Brodie\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n
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