Anesthesia doctor in Bavaria could have infected 1300 patients in the OP with Hepatitis C

Anesthesia doctor in Bavaria could have infected 1300 patients in the OP with Hepatitis C

An anesthesia doctor in a large clinic in Donauwörth, in Bavaria, is suspected to have 1300 patients in the operating room with a Hepatitis C infected. The hospital urges on its website, patients – in which a particular anesthesiologist, the anesthesia has made, to test. Of the 752 patients undergoing the Test so far, has been found in at least 45 infection.

The health Department did a little research as a physician of the authority, three patients with Hepatitis C infection reported, had all been in the Donau-Ries clinic treated. The &quot reported;Bild"-Newspaper.

The clinic had identified subsequently contaminated surgical instruments as Vectors of the Virus. The suspect anesthesiologist should medication be dependent, and even anesthetics have been injected. According to his lawyers, the 53 have not-Year-old the used cannulas used again.

The doctor is no longer contagious

In addition, the doctor knew nothing of his illness. Even in 2016, it had been a Routine Review in 2016, tested negative in the following year, no Inspection shall be made. Only this year, an infection was found.

The Augsburg public Prosecutor’s office determines because of physical injury. Whether the 53-Year-old acted with intent, could not evaluate, as a senior Prosecutor Matthias Nickolai, compared to the "Bild". After his release, the anesthesiologist started a therapy. Today, he is regarded as cured. Risk of infection no longer go out from him, as the newspaper writes further.