On the evening of December 16, a video of a parent of a patient in Leshan, Sichuan Province, discovering suspected worms in the infusion bag spread online.
On the 17th, Red Star News learned that the incident occurred in Leshan People's Hospital, and the two sides have jointly sealed the infusion bag involved.
According to Mr. Huang, a citizen, since December 10, his 3-year-old son has been infused four times a day at Leshan People's Hospital because of influenza. At about 23:00 on the evening of December 15, the last infusion was being carried out, and just a few minutes after the infusion, an unknown object was suddenly found on the infusion tube.
Suspected insectoid objects in the infusion tube
"At first, I thought there was something dirty outside the pipe wall, but when I looked closely, I found that it was inside the pipe, something like a bug." Mr. Huang said that at that time, they were frightened and quickly called a nurse to deal with it. Shortly after the infusion tube was removed, small itchy red dots appeared on the back of their son's back, and they suspected that the insectoid object might have a bacterial infection.
On December 16, Mr. Huang asked his son to be discharged from the hospital and go home to rest. According to Mr. Huang, when negotiating with the hospital, the hospital called the manufacturer, "Let's find the relevant institutions to identify the insect-like objects in the infusion tube, where do we go to find it?" ”
Infusion bag information
On the morning of the 17th, the Red Star News reporter visited the ward, and a patient's family member who was clinically paved said that at that time, he also saw the insect-like object in the infusion tube of Mr. Huang's son, and now that he thinks about it for a while, he is afraid, and he really can't figure out that there will be worms in the infusion tube, is it that the medical staff did not check before the infusion?
Mr. Huang showed off the sealed infusion bag
After the incident, both the patient and the hospital have jointly sealed the infusion bag involved. In this regard, the head of publicity of the hospital said that it is not accepting media interviews now, and the hospital has just held a meeting, and has also reported to the relevant departments, and will respond positively to the matter on the hospital's official website.
At about 14:00 on the afternoon of the 17th, the official website of Leshan People's Hospital issued a notice expressing apologies to the children and their families and willing to bear the responsibilities they should bear according to law. The full text is as follows:
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > leshan People's Hospital's briefing on the pediatric infusion device foreign body incident</h1>
Recently, public opinion and the media have paid great attention to the discovery of foreign bodies in the pediatric infusion device of our hospital. After the incident, the hospital attached great importance to it and immediately formed an inter-departmental investigation team to carry out investigation and verification. The preliminary investigation is hereby notified as follows:
At about 0:00 on December 16, 2019, a child in the pediatric department of our hospital was discharged from the infusion for 5 minutes, the family found that there was a foreign body in the infusion device, the nurse on duty immediately stopped the infusion, and the medical staff immediately conducted a comprehensive and serious examination of the child, after 17 hours of close observation, the child had no discomfort, and was discharged from the hospital as planned after obtaining the consent of the family, and instructed to follow up on time.
After the incident, the relevant departments of our hospital immediately sealed the infusion device under the witness of the family and handed it over to the family for safekeeping.
Our hospital apologizes to the children and their families in the incident and is willing to bear the responsibilities they should bear in accordance with the law.
As a century-old hospital, our hospital has been adhering to the tenet of "benevolence and honesty in medicine". All medical consumables in our hospital, including infusion sets, are purchased in accordance with national regulations and standards, in line with national standards. The infusion device involved in this incident is a disposable precision filter bag infusion device (National Machinery Injection 20153660673) produced by Henan Shuguang Jianshi Medical Device Group Co., Ltd.
After the incident, our hospital reported to the superior competent department in a timely manner, and carefully learned lessons from the incident, comprehensively cleaned up the use of all medical consumables in the hospital, strengthened the implementation of the check system, and avoided the recurrence of similar incidents.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Source: Red Star News</h1>