No action will be taken against hospital caterers after some 100 patients suffered food poisoning last month, because lab tests have proven "inconclusive", the Health Ministry said. A spokeswoman for Health Minister Chris Fearne told the Times of Malta that 97 patients across three State hospitals and the newly privatised Karen Grech Hospital were confirmed to have suffered food poisoning last month. The source of the virus, however, remains unknown. The four hospitals are all provided with food from the same service. The spokeswoman said: "The investigation has been closed. The outbreak has been confirmed to be caused by norovirus, but the exact source remains indeterminate." She later added that this was not out of the ordinary. More than half of the international reviews carried out on norovirus outbreaks in hospitals failed to identify the source, she said when this newspaper asked why no action was being taken against the hospital caterers. Last month, this newspaper reported how the symptoms that gave rise to a suspicion of food poisoning at Mater Dei and Karin Grech hospitals had also been noticed in the Sir Paul Boffa physiotherapy department and St Vincent de Paul home...
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