To
appropriately survey and investigate reported infectious and
non-infectious diseases, and enforce the Ohio state regulations
regarding reportable diseases in the Akron area.
In August, the
Columbus Dispatch and WBNS-TV published a multi-part exposé of the
inadequate medical care in Ohio's prisons. The series exposed
wrongful deaths, inadequate care and questionable doctors. Almost
2,600 Ohio prisoners are known to be infected with Hepatitis C and
health officials estimate the true figure to be closer to 9,000. As
of July, the number of prisoners receiving treatment for Hepatitis C
was 16. In September, the Prison Reform Advocacy Center in
Cincinnati filed a class action lawsuit challenging these
conditions.
Ohio prison
inmates face long waits for treatment by physicians who often
are overworked and sometimes have histories of disciplinary
problems, a newspaper and television station's investigation
shows. At least two inmates died minutes after being released
from prison clinics, and others have gone days without receiving
prescribed medicines, according to the three-month investigation
reported Sunday by The Columbus Dispatch and WBNS-TV.
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