Google – AFP, Antoine Agasse (AFP), 4 January 2014
Grenoble — France's government said Saturday it has recalled a batch of nutrient bags used by a hospital in the Alps to feed babies intravenously after three infants died because of a bacterial contamination.
People walk
toward the entrance of the Maternity hospital of Chambery,
French Alps, on
January 4, 2014 (AFP, Philippe Desmazes)
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Grenoble — France's government said Saturday it has recalled a batch of nutrient bags used by a hospital in the Alps to feed babies intravenously after three infants died because of a bacterial contamination.
The parents
of the three newborns, who died on different days in early December, have filed
criminal complaints for manslaughter against the hospital, located in the town
of Chambery in southeast France.
Analyses of
several unused IV bags from the batch used to give the newborns nutrients while
in the hospital's neonatal intensive care ward showed they all contained
bacteria, the hospital told the parents.
"We're
lodged the complaint to find out what happened. There was a failure in the
system and this failure needs to be found so it never happens again," said
the 37-year-old father of one of the infants, who gave his first name as
Laurent.
Local
prosecutors investigating the case said they would make no comment before next
week.
France's
health minister, Marisol Touraine, announced all the batch that included the
affected IV bags had been withdrawn.
She called
the deaths "an extremely grave accident".
The
director of the hospital, Guy-Pierre Martin, told a news conference Saturday
that the contaminated IV nutrient bags all came from a French pharmaceutical
firm, but he refused to identify it, saying that was up to French government
authorities.
He did not
identify the lethal bacteria either.
He said the
hospital would assume its responsibilities if the investigation found it
liable.
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