This is truly shocking!
Doesn't matter which side you stand on this is a stuff-up of major proportions:
MORE than 50 cancer patients will have to wait an agonising three months to find out whether they have been infected with HIV, after a NSW (Australia) clinic used one needle on patients for two months. The bungle occurred when a newly employed nurse mistakenly believed the Accu-Chek Multiclix, a device used to check blood sugar levels, automatically changed needles.
Dr Michael Jones, chairman of the private radiology company PRP Diagnostic Imaging which runs the Gosford clinic, said the nurse didn't realise she had to change the needle manually for each new patient.
Instead, the needle was left unchanged between November 28 and January 28, and used on 53 patients and two staff members.
Oh boy
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