Scots dad tells QEUH inquiry son with cancer almost died twice after catching infection at hospital

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Hospitals Inquiry his son almost died twice in 24 hours from an infection picked up in a ward. The infection took hold after the child, then seven, had a cancerous kidney removed in a 10-hour operation at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children.

The child’s father Cameron Gough praised the “incredible” nurses and doctors in the hospital’s Schehallion Unit – a specialist unit for child cancer patients.

His son had been diagnosed with Wilms – a rare form of cancer – and was undergoing chemotherapy at the hospital.He described the care of his child as being above “gold standard” when his son was treated in the Schehallion Unit.After four weeks of chemo, Cameron’s son was admitted to paediatric surgery to have his kidney removed.The day after his.