Guernsey Health department fined £10k after blood samples sent to recycling depot

Guernsey’s Health and Social Care department has been fined £10,000, after clinical waste was sent to an island recycling plant.

A blood analysis machine was found at the site in December 2015. It contained pouches of a fluid that had been used for analysis and also contained blood.

HSC says the pouches would have contained half an egg cup full of blood at the most, but admitted that correct procedures had not been followed for the disposal of waste.

I would like to make clear that HSC takes the disposal of its waste very seriously. HSC deals with five tonnes of clinical and other waste on a daily basis. This was an isolated incident, it shouldn’t have happened but arose due to human error which we have learnt from and taken further steps to strengthen our waste separation and management controls.

– Mark de Garis, Chief Secretary to the Committee for Health and Social Care

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