“The results of water analyzes carried out this weekend after the first cleaning operations do not reveal any anomaly,” the hospital announced in a press release on Monday. Non-urgent operations were suspended on Friday April 19 after an equipment sterilization accident.
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The management of the CHR Metz-Thionville (Moselle) hoped to resume all its activities on Wednesday, it will ultimately be necessary to wait until Friday for a resumption “staggered”, according to information reported Monday April 22 by France Bleu Lorraine Nord. In a press release, the hospital states that “the results of water analyzes carried out this weekend after the first cleaning operations do not reveal any anomalies”but as a precaution, scheduled operations remain suspended until Friday, before resuming “staggered”. Also time to replace the “sterilization circuit components affected”.
Since Friday April 19, non-urgent operations have been suspended after an equipment sterilization accident. According to information from France Bleu Lorraine Nord, this is an incident involving a subcontracted service. “Non-compliant products” were detected “in softener tanks” necessary for sterilization, Doctor Grégory Rondelot explained on Saturday on France Bleu Lorraine Nord. The sterilization chain came to a standstill and forced the hospital to cancel interventions.
The hospital focused on emergencies only with already sterilized equipment, but also thanks to an agreement established with a neighboring clinic. “When one of the two sterilizations is in difficulty, it can go and sterilize its equipment in the neighboring structure,” Dominique Peljak, general director of CHR Metz-Thionville, explained to France Bleu Lorraine Nord.
