WALES: GP unaware E. coli outbreak had been declared - (Media Wales)
March 13, 2008 – 8:31 pmA GP who prescribed painkillers to a young boy with E. coli O157 today was cited as telling the E. coli inquiry today he did not know there was an outbreak in the South Wales valleys.
The first time Dr V was alerted to the outbreak was on September 20, 2005 - four days after the outbreak control team declared the outbreak and on the same day a worried mother, who had reported her son’s diarrhoea and vomiting to the Rhymney practice, had the boy admitted to hospital.
The revelation comes after the E. coli public inquiry heard that the National Public Health Service for Wales said it had taken significant steps to alert GP practices, out-of-hours services and hospitals across South Wales about the outbreak, which was declared on September 16.
The young boy from Rhymney - known only as case six - suffered kidney failure and was transferred to a specialist […]
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