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PRNewswire - Thursday November 9, 2000
Between 800,000 and 1 million healthcare workers are accidentally stuck by a needle each year. Once stuck, contracting hepatitis C, HIV, and many other diseases becomes a possibility. This is the deadly prospect that healthcare workers face everyday when they go to work.
On November 6, 2000, President Clinton signed the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Law. Healthcare workers can now expect to see safer medical devices in their working environment.
The signing of this bill means that safety devices will be top priority in medical facilities in the very near future. Medi-Hut Co., Inc., based in Lakewood, New Jersey, is positioning itself to provide these facilities with the much needed safety syringes. Their syringes are currently in production, and are on schedule to ship the first orders next month.
Joe Sanpietro, President of Medi-Hut Co., states, "We are thrilled with the positive outcome of this important bill. Given the lack of opposition to the bill, it is evident that healthcare safety is of prime importance. Healthcare workers have been at serious risk for too long."
Every time a nurse gives a patient a shot or takes blood he or she never knows if that one time will mean a lifetime of suffering which may lead to death or an incurable disease. If the needle is not a safety syringe that prevents a nurse from being accidentally stuck, the nurse could contract a deadly disease. Is this fear necessary?
Medi-Hut doesn't think so. Medi-Hut's Elite Safety Syringe incorporates a protective transparent sleeve that automatically covers the used needle immediately after injection. This ensures that there is absolutely no way that they needle can inject someone a second time around while the nurse is pulling the needle out or throwing it away. The needle will always be covered with no chance of infecting anyone.
By signing this act into law and by using Medi-Hut's Elite Safety Syringe, the government and hospitals all over the country can reduce the number of accidental needlesticks from 1 million to zero.
SOURCE: Columbia Financial Group
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