Hospital where Lucy Letby worked suffered bacteria outbreak ‘lethal’ to babies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/03/countess-of-chester-hospital-lucy-letby-bacteria-outbreak/
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Hospital where Lucy Letby worked suffered bacteria outbreak ‘lethal’ to babies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/03/countess-of-chester-hospital-lucy-letby-bacteria-outbreak/
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‘It has now emerged that at the time when infant mortality rates spiked at the Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016 – the years in which Letby was convicted of killing the infants – the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa had colonised taps in the nurseries of the neonatal unit, including intensive care.
Pseudomonas is known to be lethal to vulnerable babies. In 2012, a premature baby died and 12 others needed treatment at Southmead Hospital in Bristol after an outbreak of a water-borne bacterium.
Three premature babies also died after contracting the bug at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast January 2012. In that case, sink taps were found to be the source of infection. A baby had died from the same infection six weeks earlier in Derry.’
>”During Letby’s trial it emerged that there had been major problems with plumbing in the hospital and on one occasion human waste or sewage entered the neonatal intensive care room from the drains of a ward above.
>The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonised taps in the nurseries of the neonatal unit, including intensive care between 2015 and 2016
>However the bacterial infection problems in the unit were never mentioned, neither during the trial nor in a report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) who investigated the high mortality rate at the unit in 2017.”
Jesus Christ.
There is a private eye podcast and article, below, where MD (Phil Hammond) is discussing the applicability of some the evidence presented and in particular the statistical evidence. Essentially saying correlation does not mean causation.
I will let others read it to make up their own minds.
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/lucy-letby.pdf
If the kids really did die to bacterial infection then why did she write a confession at home? was that planted evidence or has she done something else?
I’m not a neonatologist. But from what I remember of the reported circumstances of the deaths, it did not seem as though these babies were dying from a bacteraemia. Babies on NICU get a set of bloods and cultures if they so much as sneeze, surely this would have been picked up.
She’s the killer, even if released she will be punished, most likely even harsher than prison
The babies died from insulin overdoses and air embolisms I thought?
There’s still no reason babies would be dying at an escalated rate for her specifically compared to her colleagues though.
The only thing this proves is that the hospital itself was inadequate. She absolutely killed those babies.