Posted on 12/04/2013 4:30:08 AM PST by zoya
A New Hampshire hospital employee faces nearly four decades of jail time for causing a Hepatitis C outbreak that infected dozens of patients last year.
David M. Kwiatkowski, 34, a drug addict has been sentenced to 39 years in federal prison for spreading the lethal liver destroying disease in patients through tainted needles while working at hospitals in several states.
Kwiatkowski worked as a “traveling” radiologic technician at medical institutes in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Arizona, Kansas, Georgia and New Hampshire. - See more at: David Kwiatkowski gets 39 years for infecting patients with Hepatitis C
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He should have been executed.
Fentanyl is 100 times more powerful than morphine.
Obviously he was shooting up with small amounts of the drug, and then refilling the syringe with saline back to the proper level. If he had been emptying the vial he would have been caught much sooner. He was not using the entire amount he was diluting it, and contaminating the syringe in the process. In effect he is a serial killer.
He’s lucky - he should have been hanged.
Technically and legally this person was not an Exeter Hospital employee. He was a "traveler" working for a staffing company outside the State of New Hampshire.
Regardless of who he worked for this dude should be...well, you know.
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