{"id":99012,"date":"2025-08-28T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99012\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:15:08","slug":"prosecutors-investigate-molly-cuddihy-death-after-hospital-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99012\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors investigate Molly Cuddihy death after hospital infection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Ms Cuddihy, from Greenock<\/a>, developed septic shock while being treated for a rare cancer at the hospital, an experience she described while giving evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry.\n<\/p>\n

\n It is understood that her death this week was reported to prosecutors by a doctor.\n<\/p>\n

\n NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde<\/a> has expressed its \u201cdeepest condolences\u201d to Ms Cuddihy\u2019s family.\n<\/p>\n

\n The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said her death is being investigated.\n<\/p>\n

\n A COPFS spokesman said: \u201cThe Procurator Fiscal has received a report on the death of a 23-year-old woman in Glasgow on 26 August 2025.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cAn investigation into the death is ongoing and significant developments will be shared with the family throughout the investigation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: \u201cOur deepest condolences are with the family of Molly Cuddihy during this extremely difficult time.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cTo respect patient confidentiality we are unable to provide further comment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus (Image: Andrew Milligan\/PA)<\/p>\n

\n The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is currently investigating the construction of the QEUH campus, which includes the Royal Hospital for Children.\n<\/p>\n

\n It was launched in the wake of deaths linked to infections, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Molly Cuddihy, then aged 19, gave evidence to the inquiry in 2021.\n<\/p>\n

\n She was told she had metastatic Ewing\u2019s sarcoma when she was 15-years-old and told the inquiry she experienced \u201cfrightening\u201d fits that were linked to a hospital acquired infection.\n<\/p>\n

\n She was cared for at the Royal Hospital for Children and QEUH in Glasgow between January 2018 and 2020, where she was fitted with a line for treatment.\n<\/p>\n

\n Not long into her chemotherapy, Ms Cuddihy said her body went into septic shock \u2013 a life-threatening condition that happens when your blood pressure drops to a dangerously low level after an infection.\n<\/p>\n

\n The young patient was soon diagnosed with mycobacterium chelonae, an infection in her line that she later discovered came from the hospital environment \u2013 air or water-borne \u2013 and that had probably caused her temperature spikes and fits.\n<\/p>\n

\n Ms Cuddihy said she had to take a \u201cvery strong\u201d course of antibiotics she likened to bleach to treat the infection.\n<\/p>\n

\n She told the inquiry: \u201cThe medication had horrible side-effects. I thought chemo was bad, but this was something else.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI got a prolonged QT interval with my heart. This is when my heart pumps out the blood, but then doesn\u2019t fill up fast enough, so I would often collapse.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n She said the doctors and nurses were just as much in the dark as she was about where the infection came from.\n<\/p>\n

\n Ms Cuddihy told the inquiry: \u201cI was made sicker by the environment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Despite her illness Ms Cuddihy worked to help other young patients, and was involved in podcasting and fundraising, helping to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for the hospital.\n<\/p>\n

\n \"MollyMolly Cuddihy faced a long battle with illness (Image: NQ) Ms Cuddihy\u2019s family paid tribute to her in a statement released to the BBC.\n<\/p>\n

\n They said: \u201cIt is with broken hearts that we share the passing of our beloved daughter Molly.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cShe was a special soul who brought light, love, and kindness into the lives of so many around her.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhat we will always treasure is the way she touched others; often without ever realising just how truly extraordinary she was.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n They added: \u201cWe are devastated by her loss and struggling to comprehend a world without her gentle presence.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cTo us, she will forever be our precious girl: deeply loved, irreplaceable, and always remembered.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is also investigating the construction of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, in Edinburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Cuddihy, from Greenock, developed septic shock while being treated for a rare cancer at the hospital, an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-99012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99012","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=99012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}