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TWO heads of a hospital in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province were sacked after 26 patients contracted hepatitis C during dialysis treatment, local authorities said Friday.
The president and a deputy president of Zhen’an County Hospital in Shangluo City were removed from their posts, and 13 other employees received administrative penalties, including admonitions and demerits on their records, a source with the county’s health and family planning bureau said.
The 26 patients are all under observation while they receive treatment, the source said.
The patients were alleged to have contracted hepatitis C earlier this month during hemodialysis sessions at the hospital, said He Youwen, a hospital official.
“They are among some 40 kidney disease patients who regularly receive the treatment two to three times a week,” he said.
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