Superbug test case can go ahead

Link: BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Superbug test case can go ahead.

A Lanarkshire grandmother who contracted the MRSA superbug has been given the go ahead to bring a test case against an NHS board. Elizabeth Miller, 71, from Kilsyth, said she was "overjoyed" that a legal challenge by Greater Glasgow NHS Board to her case had been dismissed. Judge Lady Clark ruled a full hearing into the £30,000 claim should be held. The case is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK and could lead to scores of others, if it succeeds. Mrs Miller contracted the MRSA bug in 2001 when she was recovering from a heart operation at Glasgow's Royal Infirmary. I just feel my life will never be the same again. Elizabeth Miller She claims it has turned her life upside down.