Nurse reused blood-test device (Winnipeg Free Press)


Seventeen Winnipeggers will be offered tests for hepatitis C, hepatitis A, and HIV after they were potentially exposed to tainted blood at a local clinic. Dr. Pierre Plourde, medical officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, said a nurse at Centre de santé Saint-Boniface used a medical device to draw blood on multiple patients for blood sugar level tests between May 2007 and ...

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