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Dr Inkster was the lead infection control doctor for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde from April 2016 to September 2019.

Dr Inkster led the investigation into two cases of cryptococcus in 2019, a fungal infection associated with pigeons droppings.

In written evidence to the inquiry, Dr Inkster said on a walk round of the wards at the Royal Hospital for Children in July 2015 she found “holes in the ceiling”, “dust falling on her head” with “workman drilling holes with the most immunocompromised children present”.

Dr Inkster said: “In my view, something had gone horribly wrong”.

There were not "sufficient accommodations" for children with compromised immune systems Dr Inkster argued, adding that whole wards could have been "protective environments", not just the isolation rooms for the most vulnerable patients.