REGINA – Saskatchewan’s health minister says health regions across the province have taken steps to make sure containers with used needles are secure after a toddler put her hands into a pail of syringes at a hospital.
Dustin Duncan asked the regions to do an audit in November to make sure all facilities are following the rules for proper disposal.
The audit was ordered after a toddler put her hands into a pail of used syringes in the emergency room at the hospital in Outlook, south of Saskatoon.
Duncan could not immediately say how many changes needed to be made, but he says the fact that action was taken suggests used needle containers were in the wrong spots, perhaps for convenience.
The minister says in those cases, containers were moved off the ground and secured to a wall.
The little girl had to get Hepatitis B shots and drugs to prevent infections, such as HIV, and she has to undergo regular blood tests for several months to determine if she has caught anything.
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