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New York State Commissioner of
Health Dr. Nirav R. Shah is encouraging the state’s health care providers to be
sure they are following proper infection control procedures while administering
injections to patients. The New York One & Only campaign’s goal is to
re-educate health care workers about safe injection practices and to encourage
patients to ask questions.
Shah noted some incidents of health
care providers neglecting to follow CDC’s “2007 Standard Precautions,” which
emphasized the necessity for diligence in preparing and administering
injections. According to the Safe Injection Practices Coalition, a group of
health care-related organizations that includes CDC, since 2001 more than
150,000 patients in the United States have been informed that they may have
been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV due to unsafe injection
procedures by health care providers.
The slogan of the campaign, “One
Needle, One Syringe, Only One Time,” encourages patients to ask questions of
their health care providers, including what steps they are taking to ensure
that they will receive a safe injection each time.
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