Las Vegas hospital admits to reusing syringes
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That's actually pretty scary, Jenn. 40,000 perhaps may have been contaminated.
That's screwed up on a few levels.Kinda scary you can't even trust the hospitals to be safe.
Well. that sure bit them in the ass if they were doing to to save money.
Aj and I watched this program about a week ago where some place *I forget, bangs head* was handing out free needles to street junkies on heroin to make sure they were protected from some such. If they brought in 2 needles, they were given 2 new ones.
I thought about that and although part of me was like, **** it, they wanna kill themselves with heroin, why should they be given free needles? but then on the up side, the organization is keeping more needles off the streets and outta harms way for innocent folk.
now, to sit back and see a hospital where folk put there trust to do this, it's almost insane.
See, I'd want to say ignorance and lack of training were involved, but I find that hard to believe.
Docs and nurses are trained and know better, so I'm thinking it was a cooperate discussion past down to it's workers.
and no matter what excuse they come up with, whether to save money or what not, it'll never be a good enough of one to make up for what they have done.
The effects will multiple and ripple. One given the needle and receives the aids virus will spread it on to their lover(s) therefore doubling the issue.
Thank you, Jen! Vancouver BC.
Me too, but I'd be willing to pay it out of my taxes to make the streets cleaner for our kids, and yup, they are going to do it anyway.
Which? The syringes or the people stupid enough to reuse them? Both need it frankly.
Junkies use Javax. I have witnessed them dig fits right out of a storm drain. That's why the needle exchanges.
Woof!
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I'm with Karrie, they both need sterilized, the needles and health care workers.
As far as sterilizing a needle, they can be disinfected reduces the chance but don't eliminate it.
Injecting drugs
Although I understand your benifit of the doubt logic in this, exactly how many of us here know by common knowlege that you do not reuse or share needles, esspecially in a hospital that deals with thousands of cases of illnesses each day alone? I would have hoped the "Professionals" would have had a brain to know otherwise as well.
Perhaps it's my own medical knowlege from my parents, but I can not fathom any logical excuse for this to occur except for either saving money, or some sadistic game someone wanted to play on society for their own personal demented entertainment.
You use a needle for injection or blood withdrawl, and then you chuck it in the Bio bin.
I swear the moment I see a recycling bin with needles in it in a hospital, will be the last time I goto that hospital. I'll amputate my leg myself thanks.
I can't imagine any nurse or tech stupid enough to not know better. You can't reuse syringes, plain and simple. You can't resterilize them. This is absolutely insane. Anyone involved in this can be sure to lose their lisence and face some nice lawsuits.
Tracy,
Back in the old days, when my mother was a nurse, they did sterilize needles and reuse them. We also had cloth diapers which we washed and reused.
Everything now is disposable, but back then, car dashboards were metal. HA!
Uncle
Back in the old days, when my mother was a nurse, they did sterilize needles and reuse them. We also had cloth diapers which we washed and reused.
Everything now is disposable, but back then, car dashboards were metal. HA!
Uncle
