Two girls died after consuming hospital hen mayo sandwiches suspected of containing listeria, an inquest heard.Retired Jamaican nurse Beverley Sowah, 57, and mother-of-five Enid Heap, 84, got the sandwiches on successive days whereas sufferers at Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) in 2019.Each girls, who had underlying ailing well being situations, died days later, a part of a nationwide alert over the listeria outbreak.The supply of the micro organism was linked to an exterior meals provider not the kitchens on the hospital, Manchester Coroner’s Courtroom heard.A joint inquest for each girls, with a jury of 5 males and two girls, started on Monday, scheduled to last as long as 5 days, with family members of each Mrs Sowah and Mrs Heap, attending.Additionally represented are legal professionals for North Nation High quality Meals, based mostly in Salford, who equipped the hen to the Good Meals Chain, who made the sandwiches from their “Complete lotta Good” vary, equipped to hospitals, through a contract with Sodexo.Each the meat provider and sandwich maker companies have since gone into liquidation.Meals firm equipped 70 hospitalsThe Good Meals Chain, based mostly in Stone, Staffordshire, made as much as 40,000 sandwiches a day, supplying round 70 hospitals.Listeria may cause an sickness known as listeriosis, which may be deadly for folks with weakened immune methods.In opening remarks in the beginning of the listening to, Zak Golombeck, Manchester metropolis coroner, stated, “This case issues the deaths of two people, for whom, there’s purpose to suspect, they died of a notifiable illness, particularly listeria.”Jamaican-born Mrs Sowah was admitted to Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) on April 15 2019, on the time she was affected by superior breast most cancers. Two days later she was given the hen mayo sandwich and died on April 26.There was no proof of “sub-optimal” look after Ms Sowah other than the “hospital-acquired” listeria an infection.