The meningitis outbreak resulted from contaminated epidural steroid injections could have been avoided. But since the FDA didn’t use its power for this purpose appropriately, more than 500 individuals were contaminated with this disease and 39 recipients of the injections died.
Tennessee officials turned out to show unbelievable competence under such circumstances. They were praised by legislators for their decisive actions.
It was reported that a lot of individuals that had received epidural steroid injections produced by the NECC experienced complications. When Tennessee health officials found out about this situation, they enforced all health facilities to stop utilizing drugs produced by the pharmacy from Massachusetts. Furthermore, they informed immediately about contamination health officials of other states. Actions of Tennessee health officials were quick and decisive. They didn’t hesitate and did everything in order to prevent further contamination and improve help those that were already contaminated with meningitis.
If Tennessee health officials hadn’t acted so rapidly and competently, more persons would have been contaminated with fungal meningitis and more deaths would have been.
As for the FDA, it appeared to be incompetent. It didn’t utilize its power decisively in order to improve the situation. Then it tried to justify its negligence, saying that its power was not cleared and established enough to interfere in such large-scale compounding pharmacies, as the NECC. But legislators didn’t accept the FDA’s excuse.
Tennessee health officials merit obtaining a gold medal for their actions.
However certain individuals consider that they could avoid contamination, warnings about certain risks continue to exist. A lot of persons are still hospitalized. Others are contracted by health officials. If any side symptoms occur at injection sites of those who have applied the tainted steroids, they must call doctors immediately.
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