Faulty Cleaning Equipment 'Put Patients at Risk'

Mail on SundayJuly 13, 2008

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SCOTS patients were put at risk when a steriliser used to clean invasive testing probes developed a fault.

A health board has contacted people who recently underwent endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures after it emerged the high-tech scopes used in the internal examinations were not properly disinfected.

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Faulty Cleaning Equipment 'Put Patients at Risk'

The move came after a nurse spotted a fault in disinfecting equipment by chance as it ran through its cycle.

Now experts fear the failure, which pr...

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