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Baby Dies in Hospital From Mould Infection
Baby Dies in Hospital From Mould Infection
by Canada.com News
Canada -- It's too soon to say whether hospital renovations were a
factor
in
the death of a premature infant who died of a mould infection in an
intensive care unit, Ste-Justine Hospital said Tuesday.
The neonatal unit where the baby died on Jan. 10 is being cleaned and
sterilized, the hospital said in a statement.
"Concerning the construction that's being done near the unit, the
hospital's
administration considers it's premature to link it to this event," the
statement said.
The hospital said the baby, born at 29 weeks, had an infectious mould
disease but tests will determine the exact nature of the infection.
"What happened concerns us greatly," Dr. Lucie Poitras, director of
professional services, said in a statement.
The cleaning and sterilization will last for several days and babies
will
be
moved to another unit, the hospital said.
The hospital was given $20 million by the Quebec government to enlarge
the
neonatal unit.
Similar mould infection cases have been seen in recent years including
the
Royal Victoria Hospital in 2001, the Montreal Heart Institute in 2002
and
the Honoré-Mercier Hospital in St. Hyacinthe in 2003
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