A former New Hampshire sanatorium technician faces new sovereign charges for allegedly infecting some-more than 30 patients with hepatitis C regulating virus-tainted syringe needles he had before used on himself.
David Kwiatkowski, 33, a roving medical technician who had many recently worked during Exeter Hospital in southern New Hampshire, was charged with 7 depends of tampering with a consumer product and 7 depends of receiving tranquil substances by fraud, U.S. Attorney for a District of New Hampshire John Kacavas pronounced on Thursday.
The charges reinstate a two-count complaint filed in June.
Prosecutors lay that Kwiatkowski, who has hepatitis C, stole syringes of a drug fentanyl dictated for patients and injected himself with a anesthetic. He afterwards refilled a syringes with salty solution, withdrawal a needles for a sanatorium to re-use on patients, they say.
Hepatitis C can means critical liver repairs and is obliged for some-more deaths in a United States annually than HIV.
The Justice Department says that Kwiatkowski schooled he had a illness in Jun 2010 though patients continued to be injected with putrescent needles prolonged afterward.
If convicted, he faces adult to 10 years in jail for any product tampering assign and adult to 4 years for any rascal count.
Kwiatkowski had also worked in states including Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Arizona and Kansas given 2007. Patients from hospitals where Kwiatkowski before worked in Kansas, Maryland and New Hampshire have tested certain for a disease.
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