Public Health England and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have announced that they are investigating 15 cases of blood poisoning in babies in neonatal intensive care units caused by a bacteria known as Bacillus cereus, however Islanders are being reassured about local services.
Isle of Wight NHS Trust is seeking to reassure parents and Islanders that the Trust’s Maternity and Neonatal Intensive Care services are unaffected.
Pharmacist Liz Harrison said:
“I can assure patients that we do not use the baby feed identified by Public Health England (PHE) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as being the possible cause of this infection. We do use another different product produced by ITH Pharma Limited and we have, as a precaution, quarantined the batch produced in May 2014. There is no evidence that babies at St. Mary’s have been affected by the problems found elsewhere.”
