{"id":20031,"date":"2019-03-20T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20031"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:08:58","slug":"contaminated-needle-used-to-draw-blood-from-child-at-st-catharines-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/contaminated-needle-used-to-draw-blood-from-child-at-st-catharines-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Contaminated needle used to draw blood from child at St. Catharines hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dynamicmedia.zuza.com\/zz\/m\/original_\/d\/2\/d249a7d2-4f6d-4d98-b9c5-766406f44beb\/B88633846Z.1_20190320091326_000_GESHGGQR.10-0_Super_Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"SC-LO19-Needles_2\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kalesa Sewell and her children, Fallon and Ainsley. Fallon, 2, had blood drawn with a contaminated needle at St. Catharines hospital. &#8211; Julie Jocsak,The St. Catharines Standard<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Health has apologized to a St. Catharines mother for drawing blood from her son with a contaminated needle last week.<\/p>\n<p>Kalesa Sewell&#8217;s two-year-old Fallon had to be tested for HIV, along with hepatitis B and C, after a personal support worker pricked herself with a needle that was then used to draw blood from the boy.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/9230914-contaminated-needle-used-to-draw-blood-from-child-at-st-catharines-hospital\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Kalesa Sewell and her children, Fallon and Ainsley. Fallon, 2, had blood drawn with a contaminated needle at St. Catharines hospital. &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}