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Breath tests plan for medical staff
An MP is calling for a law requiring breathalysers at the entrance to operating theatres
MEDICAL workers should take a breath test before entering an operating theatre, an MP says.
The call follows the death last year in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques of a woman aged 28 during a caesarean – her anaesthetist later admitted to having been drinking.
MP for Oise, Picardy, Lucien Degauchy has tabled a proposed law which would make blowing into a breath test obligatory. He says such a law would have saved the woman’s life.
“I’ve been breath-tested as a driver dozens of times and found it perfectly normal,” he told France Info. “When it comes to saving lives we have to accept a certain discipline.”
However a union for anaesthetists, Bloc, called the proposal “ridiculous” and said people being drunk in the operating theatre is not a widespread problem and the woman’s death was an exceptional case.
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