In the News – Australian Hair Transplant Clinic May Have Given Patients HIV

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Health authorities in Sydney are investigating whether patients of a hair replacement clinic have contracted hepatitis or HIV.

The Health Department says there’s evidence the clinic wasn’t properly sterilising equipment. But they haven’t been able to contact former patients because the department believes records have been stolen.

The Health Department says the risk of infection is low but numbers involved could be in the hundreds.

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They are issuing alerts to patients of Dr Angela Campbell’s clinic that would have had a hair transplant between December 2010 and February 2013. The patient records went missing, so they don’t have any way of finding the patients to inform them.