The Kansas City Star – by KELSEY RYAN
More than 240 patients who underwent colonoscopies at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute may have been exposed to Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV, among other diseases, due to improper scope sanitization, the hospital announced in a media telebriefing Tuesday afternoon.
Neosho Memorial CEO Dennis Franks said the potential infections would have occurred in patients who received colonoscopies between January and July 3. The hospital is using priority mail to notify the 244 patients it thinks may have been affected. Continue reading “Patients at Chanute hospital possibly exposed to hepatitis, HIV”