Patients at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary have been banned from drinking water from the taps and given bottles over a contamination probe.
A section of the hospital in the capital was found to have debris in some of the taps, which resulted in those receiving treatment being given bottled water to drink instead.
A spokesperson for NHS Lothian told the Edinburgh Evening News: “Some debris was found in the cold water supply. It’s only affecting a small number of taps in one section of the Royal Infirmary.
"Filters have been fitted and we are supplying bottled water for drinking as a short-term measure.”
The news comes after a probe into Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
The report, published in June, was commissioned following the outcry over the deaths of three patients between December 2018 and February 2019 at the Glasgow hospital.
The review concluded that although there was not enough evidence to link hospital design to avoidable deaths, there were aspects of building that increased risk of healthcare associated infection.
