NEW SOUTH WALES: Two surgically amputated human legs that ended up in a tip came from Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital complex, a preliminary investigation has found.
The missing in action Minister for Health Jillian Skinner has confirmed the clinical waste originated from either NSW Health Pathology or John Hunter Hospital which are located on the same grounds.
The EPA is investigating, still.
NEW SOUTH WALES: The Newcastle community is horrified after the discovery of human body parts, including 2 legs, at a local rubbish tip.
The Summerhill Waste Management Centre became the centre of a murder investigation on Tuesday, 16 February 2016, after a random inspection of an area of the tip uncovered the disturbing find.
7 News revealed on Wednesday the body parts had been surgically removed and dumped with garbage instead of being dispose of properly.
The gruesome find discovered by a shocked council inspector apparently included a left and right leg cut below the knee. The parts were buried for up to six weeks, suggesting that they could have come from a cadaver.
Homicide detectives were called to the site along with a forensic pathologist who determined the amputation was done by a professional.
Also found were viles of blood and bio-hazard bags, all of which should have been incinerated. Lorraine Long from the Medical Error Action Group said she was shocked but not surprised.
“This is hospital management for you at its best,” she told 7 News.
“No system, don’t care. But the point of all of this is, no respect for the dead.”
The Wallsend tip was business as usual on Wednesday as NSW health authorities scrambled to find the contractor responsible.
Shadow Health Minister Walt Secord told 7 News the situation was ‘absolutely unacceptable’.
“There has to be an investigation by the state government… we must always remember these human remains belong to loved ones.”
The investigation is expected to be lengthy, but DNA testing could be a way of identifying the remains.
16 February 2016
VICTORIA: The baby death count at Melbourne’s Bacchus Marsh Hospital has been changed to 16 deaths in the space of two years after a health department
A fresh investigation into Bacchus Marsh and Melton Hospital has uncovered seven more infant deaths, bringing the total number of deaths at the maternity unit to 18, the ABC has reported.
In October 2015 the Victorian Health Department revealed it had asked Professor Euan Wallace to probe 11 stillbirths or deaths in 2013 and 2014 at the hospital.
Here’s the story from ABC’s 7:30 program last night – http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4407113.htm
MELBOURNE: Reprimanded doctors and alternative therapy practitioners in Victoria would face jail time under new legislation.
The Health Complaints Bill proposes tough measures to close loopholes and crack down on transgressors, says Minister for Health Jill Hennessy.
It suggests replacing the existing Health Services Commissioner with a complaints commissioner with “beefed up powers” to take action.
It will allow anyone to make a complaint, rather than only the person who received the health service.
The commissioner will have the power to instigate an investigation even when no complaint is lodged.
Individuals who breach the law could face up to two years in prison.
NSW Ministry of Health has been forced to reveal the 7 hospitals where babies were mixed up and given to the wrong mother to breastfeed.
These are the baby swap mix-up hospitals the NSW Minister for Health tried to keep secret:
CAMPBELLTOWN, GOSFORD, GRAFTON, JOHN HUNTER (Newcastle), TWEED HEADS, WESTMEAD and WOLLONGONG hospitals.
PARIS — Chief neuroscientist in Rennes, north western France: There’s no known antidote to drug in botched clinical trial.
1 brain dead, 5 others hospitalized. Big pharma botches another drug trial. Who is monitoring big pharma really?
Kickbacks are being wiped out by one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies
December 30, 2015
By Sue Dunlevy
National Health Reporter
News Corp Australia Network
Payments to doctors to speak at medical conferences to end says drug company GSK.
EXCLUSIVE.
Doctors will no longer be paid to spruik medicines or have their overseas trips funded as the medical gravy train comes to an end at one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies.
From January 1, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will stop direct payments to doctors to speak at medical conferences about its prescription medicines and vaccines.
SEE FULL STORY:
http://www.news.com.au/national/kickbacks-are-being-wiped-out-by-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-pharmaceutical-companies/news-story/36c96609755c6e0d2b162b5b7abc4a6e
BOSTON MA, USA: The pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been fined $3bn (£1.9bn) after admitting bribing doctors and encouraging the prescription of unsuitable antidepressants to children. Glaxo is also expected to admit failing to report safety problems with the diabetes drug Avandia in a district court in Boston on Thursday.
The company encouraged sales reps in the US to mis-sell three drugs to doctors and lavished hospitality and kickbacks on those who agreed to write extra prescriptions, including trips to resorts in Bermuda, Jamaica and California.
The company admitted corporate misconduct over the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin and asthma drug Advair.
Psychiatrists and their partners were flown to five-star hotels, on all-expenses-paid trips where speakers, paid up to $2,500 to attend, gave presentations on the drugs. They could enjoy diving, golf, fishing and other extra activities arranged by the company.
GSK also paid for articles on its drugs to appear in medical journals and “independent” doctors were hired by the company to promote the treatments, according to court documents.
Paxil – which was only approved for adults – was promoted as suitable for children and teenagers by the company despite trials that showed it was ineffective, according to prosecutors.
Children and teenagers are only treated with antidepressants in exceptional circumstances due to an increased risk of suicide.
GSK held eight lavish three-day events in 2000 and 2001 at hotels in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Palm Springs, California, to promote the drug to doctors for unapproved use.
READ MORE OF BIG PHARMA AND DOCTORS’ CORRUPTION:
Breast implants and 23 other surgical devices made by Brazilian manufacturer “Silimed” have been suspended from use in Australia because of contamination fears.
After a European regulatory inspection of the Brazilian factory found the surfaces of some devices were contaminated. This led to the devices being suspended in Europe and the UK earlier this week.
Thousands of the products are sold in Australia by the sponsor, Device Technologies. The TGA said it was urgently investigating to determine what action is required in Australia.
Take them off the market would be a start!
24 September 2015
NEW SOUTH WALES: A Sydney surgeon at the centre of multiple complaints from patients and other doctors, has been allowed to continue practising medicine in New South Wales under “strict supervision”. What a farce that is!
Dr Paramalingam LINGATHAS has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct (according to the medical profession’s standards, not the general public’s) by the Professional Standards Committee and reprimanded “in the strongest possible terms” in a decision this week.
Strongest possible terms? Hello! What happened to being struck off?
Dr LINGATHAS operated at Campbelltown Hospital, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Balmain, Liverpool and Auburn hospitals.
Protect yourself, for the Medical Council’s Professional Standards Committee won’t. If you encounter this malpractising medico, RUN.
