Politics & Government
Local Hospitals Linked to Potentially Tainted Drugs
Three facilities contacting patients who may have received drugs tied to meningitis outbreak.
Three hospitals in the Charleston area are informing patients that they may have been treated with tainted medications produced at the same pharmaceutical company linked to a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis, according to media reports.
Roper St. Francis Healthcare, East Cooper Regional Medical Center and the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center said Wednesday they are contacting patients who received drugs made by the New England Compounding Center, the Post and Courier reported.
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The three hospitals told the newspaper they did not purchase the antibiotic spinal injections that have sickened 200 and killed 15 others across the country. This warming, the hospitals say, is being prompted by new Food and Drug Administration guidelines.
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