The meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated steroid injections could have been prevented. But since the FDA didn’t utilize its authority for this purpose properly, more than 500 individuals were contaminated with this disease and 39 recipients of the injections died.
Tennessee officials showed unbelievable competence under these circumstances. They were praised by legislators for their decisive actions.
It was announced that many individuals who had received steroid injections produced by the NECC experienced complications. When Tennessee health officials found out about this situation, they enforced all health facilities to stop utilizing drugs produced by the compounding pharmacy from Massachusetts. Furthermore, they informed immediately about contamination health officials of other states. Actions of Tennessee health officials were rapid and decisive. They acted with no doubts and did everything in order to prevent further contamination and improve conditions of those that sickened.
If Tennessee health officials hadn’t acted so rapidly and competently, more individuals would have been contaminated with fungal meningitis and more deaths would have occurred.
When it comes to the FDA, it showed incompetence. It didn’t use its authority definitely in order to improve the situation. Then it tried to justify its incompetence, claiming that its power was not cleared and established enough to interfere in such large-scale compounding centers, as the NECC. But legislators didn’t accept the FDA’s excuse.
Tennessee health officials deserve to get a gold medal for their efforts.
However several individuals consider that they could avoid contamination, warnings about risks still exist. Numerous persons are still hospitalized. Others are contracted by health officials. If any negative effects occur at injection sites of those that have used the contaminated steroids, they must inform health care providers immediately.
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