Thursday, August 30, 2007

Patients possibly infected with HIV

OSS/VEGHEL – 500 patients of the Bernhoven hospitals in Oss and Veghel have possibly been infected with the HIV virus, hepatitis B or hepatitis C.

Because of a technical error in four new disinfection machines at the hospital, tubes used for stomach, lung and intestinal examinations may not have been properly cleaned. The Brabants Dagblad announced this on Thursday.

The hospital stresses that the error is in the machines and that the hospital is not to blame. Bernhoven is holding supplier Sanamij from Rotterdam liable.
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