No record that biopsy forceps had been sterilised...

Hospital infection control measures, or lack thereof, are a serious issue as illustrated by a probably rare case discussed in The Australian article "Hospital tools put kids in HIV risk":

ALMOST 100 children may have been infected with HIV or hepatitis as a result of being treated at Canberra Hospital with surgical instruments that had not been sterilised.

Health authorities are searching for patients who had a colon biopsy at the hospital between 1987 and mid-October last year.
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"This is an isolated rare event in healthcare. It's very unfortunate that it has occurred but occasionally things like this will happen in hospitals."

An investigation by hospital staff found two biopsy forceps used to take tissue samples were routinely washed but not sterilised as required by national standards.

A tracking system records the sterilisation of all hospital equipment. However, there was no record that the two forceps had been sterilised during the past 20 years.

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