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Superbug: UL Hospitals Group to write to those who came into contact with CPE

THE UL Hospitals Group is to contact more than 2,100 previous patients who may have come in contact with CPE, an antibiotic resistant organism, through sharing wards with other patients who had the superbug while in hospital. This week, the group ...

13 Nov 2018 at 18:09

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Review calls for more staff and bed block at Limerick hospital to tackle CPE

UNTIL A 96-bed block is built and more staff are recruited, University Hospital Limerick is going to continue to “incur preventable healthcare associated infections with their associative morbidity and mortality”. That is according to one of the ...

14 Oct 2018 at 13:00

Health

Report reveals superbug was ‘associative factor‘ in eight patient deaths at UHL

AN INTENSIVE year-long investigation into 73 patient deaths in Limerick and Mid-West found that the CPE superbug was an associative factor in eight deaths. The findings have been published this Tuesday morning in a 60-page review detailing the ...

09 Oct 2018 at 10:35

Health

Review: Expert’s stark warning on superbug saga at University Hospital Limerick

THE EXPERT behind University Hospital Limerick’s probe into 73 patient deaths has said the superbug crisis “threatens us with the dawn of a ‘post-antibiotic’ era, undoing many of the gains made in public health over the last century”. The ...

13 Oct 2018 at 11:00

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