Health authorities are investigating how unsterilised surgical instruments may have been used on 55 patients in the Hawke's Bay, exposing them to potentially deadly diseases. Dr Colin Hutchison from Hawke's Bay DHB told Checkpoint while it can't exclude risk of infection, it also can't rule it out entirely.
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