FDA showed its negligence

The meningitis outbreak resulted from contaminated steroid injections could have been avoided. But since the FDA didn’t use its authority for this goal properly, over 500 persons were contaminated with this disease and 39 persons died.
Tennessee officials turned out to show unbelievable competence under such circumstances. They were praised by legislators for their decisive actions.
It was announced that numerous persons who had received steroid injections manufactured by the NECC suffered from complications. When Tennessee health officials were informed about this situation, they enforced all health facilities to discontinue using medications produced by the compounding pharmacy from Massachusetts. Furthermore, they informed immediately about contamination health officials of other states. Actions of Tennessee health officials were quick and decisive. They didn’t hesitate and did everything in order to prevent further contamination and improve help those that were already contaminated with meningitis.
If Tennessee health officials hadn’t been so decisive and competent, more individuals would have been contaminated with fungal meningitis and more deaths would have occurred.
As for the FDA, it showed incompetence. It didn’t use its power decisively in order to improve the situation. Then it attempted to justify its negligence, saying that its authority was not cleared and established enough to interfere in such large-scale pharmacies, as the NECC. However, legislators didn’t accept the FDA’s excuse.
Tennessee health officials merit getting a gold medal for their efforts.
However certain individuals consider that they could avoid contamination, warnings about risks still exist. Many individuals are still at the hospital. Others are visited by health officials. If any adverse effects occur at injection sites of those who have used the tainted steroids, they must inform physicians at once.