The Maubeuge hospital center, in Hauts-de-France, sent a letter to 4,400 patients on Tuesday to recommend that they are carrying out screening tests, revealed northern here.
For patients taken care of in the establishment for two years maximum, it is requested to carry out a test to test the virus of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and the HIV virus. The risk of contamination is “tiny”, in the figures this translates by 0.003 % for HIV, 0.005 % for hepatitis C and 0.3 % for hepatitis B.
There would have been a “gap in the sterilization of certain instruments used” noted the Regional Health Agency (ARS), the result a transmission of viruses could have been made. The instrument holders were disinfected, ” but not sterilized According to the ARS.
Anger of patients
This concerns only patients who have had specific care which “which require dental surgery” according to Cyril Lenne, the director of the Maubeuge hospital center as the La Voix du Nord report.
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The local media also highlights that the announcements have caused anger in certain patients concerned. “My mother received a letter following her care in June 2024. I find it unacceptable that she was kept knowing a year later! “, According to Stéphanie.
Examination for viruses screening are “entirely supported by health insurance” indicates the management of the hospital.