(CNN) — A sovereign grand jury in New Hampshire has indicted a former sanatorium workman on rascal and product-tampering charges in tie with an conflict of hepatitis C that disgusted some-more than 30 people, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Investigators contend 33-year-old David Kwiatkowski injected himself with syringes of fentanyl, a absolute painkiller, that he stole from patients who were scheduled for surgery. He began operative during New Hampshire’s Exeter Hospital in Apr 2011, 10 months after being diagnosed with hepatitis C, a sometimes-fatal pathogen that attacks a liver.
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“Kwiatkowski used a stolen syringes to inject himself, causing them to turn sinister with his putrescent blood, before stuffing them with salty and afterwards replacing them for use in a medical procedure,” a U.S. attorney’s bureau in Concord, New Hampshire, pronounced in a matter announcing a charges. “Consequently, instead of receiving a prescribed sip of fentanyl, patients instead perceived salty sinister by Kwiatkowski’s putrescent blood.”
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Kwiatkowski has been charged with 7 depends of tampering with a consumer product and 7 depends of receiving tranquil substances by fraud, prosecutors said. He was arrested in Jul and had formerly worked as a roving medical technician on a agreement basement for hospitals in Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania, officials in those states confirmed.
He was dismissed from an Arizona sanatorium in 2010 after a associate worker found him upheld out in a men’s room with a syringe floating in a toilet, according to papers performed by CNN. A mouthpiece for a Arizona Heart Hospital pronounced Kwiatkowski was immediately fired, and he relinquished his permit as a radiologic technologist.
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The organisation that placed him in a Arizona job, Springboard, Inc., reported a occurrence to a American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, according to a mouthpiece for a agency. But a organisation didn’t retaliate Kwiatkowski, revelation CNN in Jul that Kwiatkowski had upheld a drug shade a following day, and there was no denote during that time that he had been putrescent with a hepatitis virus.
The organisation pronounced military had investigated a box though did not record any rapist charges, and a state organisation that regulates radiological medicine pronounced the review finished when Kwiatkowski left Arizona.
