MORE children can receive life-saving bone marrow transplants at a Paddington hospital thanks to two new, state-of-the-art isolation rooms.
St Mary's Hospital, in Praed Street, is now home to the units, which will enable the number of transplants performed per year to increase from 18 to 24. There's also less chance of germs being spread as the en suite bathrooms have taps and toilets which can be used and flushed without being touched.
Consultant paediatric haematologist Dr Josu de la Fuente said: "Children undergoing transplants have to spend between four and eight weeks in the units, because they have no defence against infection.
They are also taught every day through a web link to the school room and a play specialist visits daily."
