TWO hospital wards were forced to close after positive tests for legionella.
A number of water outlets at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley tested positive for the deadly disease.
It was forced to temporarily close two of the wards for older people in the hospital.
No patients in wards 36 and 37 have been affected. Plans are in place to transfer them to other areas of the hospital.
Both wards are not situated in the main hospital site meaning there is no impact on the wider hospital, the NHS claims.
Morag Gardner, deputy nurse director acute at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: “I would like to emphasise that the appropriate action has been taken to ensure the best possible patient centred care continues to be provided.”
The news comes after the Scotland’s new super hospital, which was dogged by safety scandals since opening in 2015
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has had a variety of scandals including “contamination” of the water supply and infections stemming from pigeon droppings.
Health chiefs are currently ripping down walls at the hospital over fears they pose a major fire hazard.
Legionella bacteria is the cause of legionnaires, a serious form of pneumonia (lung infection).
People can be infected by the disease by inhaling small droplets of water or accidentally swallowing infected water into the lungs
Treatment requires treatment by antibiotics and infected people usually need hospital attention.
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