Humza Yousaf said the new organisation would work with regional health boards to ensure all buildings are designed with infection prevention and control practice in mind to protect patients.
It follows the scandal of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow which has been plagued by serious infection issues since opening in 2015, despite costing the taxpayer £842m.
The Record revealed earlier this month how an official report found that tragic 10-year-old Milly Main died after “probably” catching a water-linked infection at the super-hospital in Govan.
Milly, who was a patient at the Royal Hospital for Children at the QEUH campus, had been in remission from leukaemia in 2017 when her catheter became infected.She died days.
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