HOSPITAL IN MRSA APOLOGY

Link: The Daily Record

        A GRIEVING family have been given an apology by a health board following the death of an elderly relative at Stirling Royal Infirmary. Pensioner Mary Harley was admitted with blood clots on September 22. But the 64-year-old contracted MRSA and died of broncho-pneumonia and a blood clot in her lungs six weeks later. After the sudden death, her anguished daughter and sister demanded answers to a string of concerns over the standard of care Mary had received. Her family complained she was left with an overflowing colostomy bag, given prescribed medicine three days late and was kept in a filthy ward. They have now been sent an apology from NHS Forth Valley.