Over 1,000 Patients Possibly Exposed to HIV After Hospital's Sanitation Mistake

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.livescience.com/patients-possibly-exposed-hiv-hospital-
sanitization-error.html

Over 1,000 patients at an Indiana hospital may have been exposed to HIV,
hepatitis B and hepatitis C after an error in a sanitizing procedure,
according to recent news reports.

Between April and September, one of the Goshen Hospital's seven surgical
sterilization technicians skipped a step in a multistep cleaning process
for certain surgical instruments, according to news reports and a
statement from the hospital. Though those surgical instruments still went
through other disinfection and sterilization procedures with a "wide
margin of safety," it's not clear if the instruments were completely
sterile before they were used on people, the hospital statement said.

"Even though we believe the risk to be extremely low, out of an abundance
of caution, we are offering patients free testing for these viruses,"
hospital representatives wrote in the statement. Officials from Goshen
Hospital sent out notification letters and are offering free blood draws
for the 1,182 patients who underwent surgery and who might have been
exposed to these infectious diseases.

One of the patients, Linda Gierek, who underwent surgery at the hospital
on June 24, filed a class-action lawsuit on Nov. 22 through attorney
Walter J. Alvarez; the lawsuit lists several anonymous defendants with
addresses at the hospital, according to The Goshen News.

Both hepatitis B and hepatitis C are liver infections caused by a virus
that can be transmitted through blood, as can happen when people share
needles. For some people, hepatitis B and C are short-term illnesses and
symptoms resolve quickly, but for others, the illnesses become chronic and
lead to more-serious health issues, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). Symptoms of hepatitis B can include fever,
fatigue and yellowing of the eyes, while symptoms of hepatitis C — if
patients have any at all — are typically mild and resemble the flu; these
can include sore muscles and tiredness.

HIV is a virus that can also be spread through blood and other bodily
fluids and that slowly attacks the immune system, destroying the body's
defenses such that it can't fight off disease, according to the CDC.

"As with any patient safety concern, we rigorously investigated all
aspects around the incident," Dr. Daniel Nafziger, Goshen hospital chief
medical officer, said in the statement. "We have put strict policies and
additional safety measures in place to ensure it does not happen again."



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