Vic: Unsterilised instruments used in surgery: hospital

AAP General News (Australia)
02-29-2000
Vic: Unsterilised instruments used in surgery: hospital

A Melbourne hospital is under investigation after as many as 10 patients were operated
on with unsterilised surgical instruments.

Victorian Health Minister JOHN THWAITES says at least 15 unsterilised instruments were
used in operations at the Box Hill hospital between February 17 and 25 this year.

But the hospital is unable to specify which patients were subjected to the suspect …