An epidemiological investigation is underway in Kamchatka in connection with the infection of cancer patients with hepatitis C and B.

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An epidemiological investigation is underway in Kamchatka in connection with the infection of cancer patients with hepatitis C and B.
January 18th. /MEDIA TALK/. Rospotrebnadzor, together with federal specialists, is investigating the infection of patients of the Kamchatka Regional cancer dispensary with hepatitis C and B. From November 2023 to December 2024, 49 victims were identified.

Experts have compiled a list of patients who underwent a genetic examination using a CT scanner at a medical facility, and they are taking tests from them. The acute form of hepatitis C and B was detected in 36 people. All patients will be treated after the diagnosis. The court suspended the work of the CT scan room.


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The press service of the Ministry of Health of the Kamchatka Territory said that personnel decisions will be made based on the results of the epidemiological investigation. At the moment, employees of the regional cancer dispensary have been ordered to eliminate violations that specialists will identify.

Earlier, we wrote that in the Chelyabinsk Regional Clinical Hospital, doctors are taught how to properly report severe diagnoses.
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