A so-called post-screening was ordered in the clinic after the hospital discovered adulterated blood samples. An employee is said to have forwarded blood from adults instead of blood from newborns to the laboratories. Blood tests in newborns can help identify rare diseases such as muscle wasting and cystic fibrosis and enable early therapy. But the clinic assumes that hundreds of these blood samples never made it to the laboratory.
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Follow-up examinations should run until the end of February
The follow-up screening has therefore been running since the beginning of November last year in order to gain clarity as to whether such defects may not have been discovered by the manipulations. At the end of February, the clinic plans to have completed the examinations of all around 1,700 children invited for follow-up examinations.
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A nurse, who is no longer in the hospital’s service, is being investigated on charges of dangerous bodily harm and mistreatment of those wards. She is suspectedmanipulating newborn blood samples for several years. Initially, there was talk of 800 possible cases. She was immediately released and reported, the public prosecutor and the state criminal investigation office are investigating.
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