Fears for up to 20 Beaumont patients over CJD exposure

Up to 20 patients being treated at Beaumont Hospital may have been operated on using instruments which were used on a patient with the lethal degenerative neurological disorder Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease (CJD).

The HSE is checking other patients’ records to see which underwent procedures using the same instruments as the CJD sufferer in a two-week period between that person being operated upon and their CJD diagnosis.

Normal sterilisation processes are not enough for CJD and items need to go through a more stringent regime or be destroyed.