Police Ask DA to Criminally Charge Endo Doc in Hepatitis-C Case

LAS VEGAS—Police in the case regarding last year’s Hepatitis-C outbreak in a Las Vegas endoscopy center are asking the district attorney involved to criminally charge facility owner Dr. Dipak Desai and some of his colleagues for neglect of patients, according to courthouse sources in a Las Vegas Sun article.

This charge is rarely pursued and includes charging the anesthetists who injected patients with propofol during colonoscopies, according to the Las Vegas Sun. Needles were allegedly reused and may have led to a hepatitis C outbreak.

“Prosecutors expect to consider filing at least seven patient neglect charges against Desai—one for each of the seven patients health officials determined were infected with hepatitis C at the Endoscopy Center in 2007,” the article states.

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