The UL Hospitals Group is reassuring patients that sufficient measures have been put in place at the region's main hospital to prevent the spread of potentially life-threatening drug-resistant bugs.
It follows whistleblower claims that more than 2 dozen people have died at University Hospital Limerick after being infected with so-called superbugs.
The hospital has admitted there is a "particular problem" with drug-resistant bugs in the Midwest, with 92 cases of CRE detected between 2009 and May 2015, but insists that there have been no deaths since 2011.
A number of measures have been put in place including the implementation of an isolation ward and Chief Clinical Director with the UL Hospitals Group, Paul Burke says he has no doubt that patients can be protected from superbugs
