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Editor, Senior Moderator
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4 dead
Lice Movono
Thursday, June 22, 2017
FOUR babies died in the past three weeks at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital after the second outbreak this year of acinetobacter baumanii ? a drug resistant bacterium ? labelled by the World Health Organization as top on the world's list of 12 deadliest bacteria.
The babies reportedly died between May 24 and June 15.
A similar outbreak occurred between the last quarter of 2016 and early 2017 at the CWM Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit and, according to the Health and Medical Services Minister Rosy Akbar, Lautoka Hospital faced its own outbreak soon after.
Health and Medical Services Ministry's permanent secretary Philip Davies confirmed the four deaths yesterday.
However, well-placed sources at CWMH say more babies may have died from at least one other bacterium, klebsiella...
4 dead
Lice Movono
Thursday, June 22, 2017
FOUR babies died in the past three weeks at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital after the second outbreak this year of acinetobacter baumanii ? a drug resistant bacterium ? labelled by the World Health Organization as top on the world's list of 12 deadliest bacteria.
The babies reportedly died between May 24 and June 15.
A similar outbreak occurred between the last quarter of 2016 and early 2017 at the CWM Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit and, according to the Health and Medical Services Minister Rosy Akbar, Lautoka Hospital faced its own outbreak soon after.
Health and Medical Services Ministry's permanent secretary Philip Davies confirmed the four deaths yesterday.
However, well-placed sources at CWMH say more babies may have died from at least one other bacterium, klebsiella...