The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has de­nied so­cial me­dia posts that prop­a­gate that a se­nior med­ical pro­fes­sion­al has pro­posed the reuse of con­sum­ables.

Con­sum­ables are non-durable, sin­gle-use med­ical sup­plies used for pa­tient care, di­ag­no­sis, or treat­ment pro­ce­dures, and are typ­i­cal­ly dis­card­ed af­ter a sin­gle use.

“I cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­ny hav­ing giv­en any in­struc­tion to reuse con­sum­ables at Mt Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal,” stat­ed the med­ical pro­fes­sion­al in a state­ment is­sued by the NCRHA on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

The NCRHA says it ad­heres to "very high stan­dards of in­fec­tion con­trol prac­tices" which in­clude ster­il­iza­tion of all in­stru­ments and con­sum­ables re­quired for pa­tient care, as well as reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled deep clean­ing cy­cles uti­liz­ing in­dus­try best prac­tices and up-to-date tech­nolo­gies in­clu­sive of checks for bio-ma­te­ri­als.

The Au­thor­i­ty says there are no changes in the us­age of con­sum­ables, in­stru­ments and equip­ment and any pro­pos­al will re­quire the en­gage­ment of its In­fec­tion Con­trol De­part­ment as well as our Qual­i­ty com­mit­tees be­fore im­ple­men­ta­tion.

“We en­gage our in­fec­tion con­trol prac­tices uti­liz­ing the high­est stan­dards.” – CEO Mr. Davlin Thomas.