Hospital chief sacked after Hep C outbreak

By Jane Chen | May 18, 2010, Tuesday |

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A NORTH China hospital chief has been removed and two vice chiefs got demerits after 11 kidney patients were infected with hepatitis C during dialysis, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's Health Bureau has announced.

The bureau didn't name the officials in the public announcement, however, today's People.com.cn reported.

The bureau investigated after receiving the infection claims via media reports on April 16, it said.

It discovered 60 patients had undergone dialysis at Urad Front Banner Women and Children's Hospital in the region's Bayannur City since 2002. Eleven contracted hepatitis C. The hospital's poor sanitation was blamed for the mass infection.

The Bayannur health bureau shut the hospital's dialysis unit and launched a thorough examination into other city hospitals.

According to earlier media reports, the infected patients had to drop their kidney transplant plans, the only treatment to cure their disease.

Patients had blamed poor sanitation management at the hospital's dialysis unit. Some patients were sharing machines while the nurses failed to thoroughly disinfect the facilities, they said.

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Hospital chief sacked after Hep C outbreak

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