From BBC Scotland in the last few minutes, the above puzzling choice of headline and buried in their report:
NHSGGC offers an unreserved apology for the distress and trauma experienced by patients and families during this time. But while the health board acknowledged a casual [sic] connection to increased infections, he stressed that there was no definite link between the hospital environment and specific individual cases of infection.
The above assertion is the key outcome of today’s session. To be clear, the health board is not accepting responsibility for any of the high profile cases, including that of Millie Mae, whose death has been cynically exploited by Anas Sarwar for nearly ten years.
Why is the health board so firm in it’s position on this?
A large body of evidence shows that many (often the majority) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) originate from the patient’s own microbial flora colonizing sites like the skin, gut, nose, or respiratory tract at the time of admission. This reflects a historical shift where improved infection control has reduced exogenous (cross-transmission) sources, making endogenous [already in the patient] ones predominant today.
This does not, of course, prove that any of these high profile cases arrived already infected but nor does it suggest with any authority that they did not. Consequently, it would be wrong for any inquiry to find against the hospital, in the absence of definitive proof.
Sources for the above:
Talking-up Scotland 
Scotland’s biggest hospital ‘opened too early’ despite safety fears is not in the least a “puzzling choice of headline” for BBC Scotland – The ploy as ever is to misquote to imply cause and effect to the Milly Main photo they’ve ruthlessly exploited, hence keep their propaganda game alive.
As with most complex projects, QEUH was commissioned in stages – Hence the “In its closing statement, NHSGGC said: “Pressure was applied to open the hospital on time and on budget, and it is now clear that the hospital opened too early. It was not ready.” ” was initially puzzling, until the ‘legal action was ongoing against the main contractor Multiplex’ made sense of it.
PS – I’m not so sure ‘casual’ is a typo in the segment you quoted….
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GGHB sued the main contractor, Multiplex, over a range of issues including water contamination and ventilation. The legal proceedings were initiated in 2019 and are still ongoing as far as I am aware.
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About as long as BBC Scotland, Sarwar & Damn Baillie have been trying to pin the headline points on SNP politicians…
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We need to demand the devolution of broadcasting to Scotland, with a new board set up here to monitor it &, importantly keep the license fee in Scotland & to make our own shows, & buy in others at a fair price.
The bbc in Scotland does not serve us well.
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