The Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust took the unusual step of conducting its own interviews and sending the story to Pa after two mothers who gave birth died shortly afterwards.
Ian Murray, the editor of the Southern Daily Echo based in Southampton has written to the trust accusing it of an attempt to
'sanitise' news coverage by "moulding the story" and claiming it used the cover of lessening press intrusion to manage the story.
The Daily Mail ran the story last Friday,it appears that a journalist's enquires from that paper led to the trust contacting PA.
But as Ian Murray says
Two women who gave birth at the same hospital on the same day died from the same infection.
"The hospital claims this is just a coincidence, but is it?
"We owe it to the dead women and anyone else about to give birth at the hospital to air this story openly.
"Usually hospitals are stringent about patient confidentiality, yet here we have a hospital setting out to create a story, manage the quotes and the reaction from families and then ask press to stay away."
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