江苏盐城东台市人民医院血透患者发生大规模院内感染,此事经财新网5月26日披露后,东台人民政府于次日发布通报,确认共有69名感染者。通报显示,国家、江苏省、盐城市卫健委都已组织专家进行现场调查,并确认此次事件是一起院内感染事件,原因主要是医院院内感染管理制度落实不到位。
Scores of patients have been infected with hepatitis C at a hospital in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, local authorities said Monday.
The outbreak took place at a specialist blood center at Dongtai People’s Hospital, which provides treatments such as hemodialysis for patients with kidney disease.
Infected patients have been under treatment in isolation wards or at their homes.
A total of 69 people are known to have contracted the disease, which is spread by contact with infected blood and can cause scarring and cancer of the liver.
No explanation has yet been given for the outbreak, which was revealed by Caixin at the weekend, though local authorities pointed the finger at lax hospital management.
One patient said others at center were diagnosed with the virus as early as April, but doctors there continued to perform dialysis as normal until mid-May — when the center required all patients to be tested.
Local authorities have dismissed three hospital executives, including the dean, vice dean and the secretary of the hospital’s Communist Party committee.