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Posted by Phillipa on August 11, 2012, at 18:51:45
This is really sick. Phillipa
From Reuters Health InformationThousands to Be Tested for Hepatitis C in New Hampshire
BOSTON (Reuters) Aug 03 - Thousands of former patients at a New Hampshire hospital have been given permission to be tested to discover whether they were infected with the hepatitis C virus by a medical technician charged with stealing drugs and contaminating needles.The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services on Friday announced plans for testing about 3,300 former patients of Exeter Hospital who may have been infected.
Any patient treated in the hospital's main operating rooms or intensive care unit between April 1, 2011 and May 25, 2012 may be at risk of infection.
David Matthew Kwiatkowski, a carrier of hepatitis C and an itinerant medical technician who worked at hospitals in several states, was charged with federal drug crimes in July for his actions in New Hampshire.
Authorities said the Michigan native stole syringes filled with fentanyl and injected himself with them. He then refilled the needles with saline, leaving the syringes for the hospital to re-use on patients.
Kwiatkowski worked in a lab at Exeter Hospital for more than a year. His charges carry sentences of up to 24 years in prison.
Tests scheduled for late July were delayed by concerns over the safety, health and privacy of those being tested. More than half the patients were 50 years or older.
"It did take a little bit longer than we had hoped to iron out how this new testing plan would work, and we do appreciate everyone's patience in this process," DHHS commissioner Nicholas Toumpas said in a statement.
Kwiatkowski is believed to have had hepatitis C since at least June 2010. Thirty cases of the same strain have been confirmed among patients from the New Hampshire hospital.
Before arriving in New Hampshire, Kwiatkowski worked as a radiology technician and in cardiac labs in at least 10 hospitals in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Georgia and Arizona
Posted by jono_in_adelaide on August 11, 2012, at 20:27:55
In reply to Thousands to be tested for Hepatitis C in NH, posted by Phillipa on August 11, 2012, at 18:51:45
There was a doctor in Austraoia recently who deliberatly infected patients with Hep C (he had it, and deliberatly infected needles with his blood before injecting patients)
He went to trial but was found to be insane, so the trial was abandoned and he was locked away in a mental ward.
Posted by Phillipa on August 11, 2012, at 23:26:07
In reply to Re: Thousands to be tested for Hepatitis C in NH, posted by jono_in_adelaide on August 11, 2012, at 20:27:55
Really? More common than one would think. Moral stay out of hospitals!!!
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