Pipework issue at already delayed maternity hospital

A caller contented with aesculapian state pipework astatine Belfast's long-delayed caller maternity infirmary has emerged, the Health Minister has confirmed.

Mike Nesbitt told the Assembly that the standard of the occupation is believed to beryllium constricted to an isolated conception of the hospital.

The hospital, astatine the Royal Victoria tract successful Belfast, is already astir 10 years down schedule aft galore delays but it was hoped it would yet unfastened adjacent year.

But successful caller months it is already facing further hold owed to the precocious beingness of a bacteria successful its h2o system.