Patients' corner
August 2008 | Patient safety
Ana Salegui (Spanish Nurses Association): "No more needlestick injuries!"
"It happened after I finished collecting blood from a patient. I really thought I was going to die. This is not an isolated case. I was infected with the blood. That patient died six hours later. I knew she was HIV positive. It was necessary to wait for the test results. It was a period full of stigmatization, discrimination. I am the voice of many people who can no longer speak. I am the voice of many colleagues, many people who are hidden. Behind each accident, behind each needlestick injury there is a whole case of a family who suffers the consequences. I am living proof that talks for all those people who day-after-day know there is a high safety material and they know they can avoid these tragedies to happen again."
