Hepatitis Fear at Welsh Hospitals as Patients Infected

Around 5,000 people treated at Welsh hospitals are being contacted after a healthcare worker infected two patients with the Hepatitis C virus.

 

The retired obstetrics and gynaecology worker is known to have passed on the infection to the patients at a Welsh hospital between 1984 and 2003.

 The individual mainly worked at Caerphilly District Miners Hospital.

 But they also spent time at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and the old East Glamorgan Hospital near Pontypridd.

 The member of staff, who conducted operations, worked at numerous hospitals around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s and those patients are also being contacted.

 They are all now reviewing their records and contacting those who may have been treated.

 However, public health officials said that the risk of transmission was low.

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