FDA failed to prevent meningitis outbreak

The meningitis outbreak caused by tainted epidural steroid injections could have been avoided. But since the FDA didn’t utilize its power for this goal suitably, more than 500 individuals were contaminated with this disease and 39 recipients of the injections died.
Tennessee officials turned out to show unbelievable competence under such circumstances. They were praised by legislators for their definite actions.
It was announced that numerous individuals who had received epidural steroid injections manufactured by the NECC suffered from complications. When Tennessee health officials found out about this situation, they enforced all health facilities to stop utilizing preparations produced by the compounding center from Massachusetts. Furthermore, they informed immediately about contamination health officials of other states. Actions of Tennessee health officials were quick and definite. They acted rapidly and did everything in order to prevent further contamination and improve the situation.
If Tennessee health officials hadn’t acted so rapidly and competently, more persons would have been contaminated with fungal meningitis and more deaths would have been.
When it comes to the FDA, it appeared to be incompetent. It didn’t utilize its authority immediately in order to improve the situation. Then it tried to justify its negligence, claiming that its authority was not cleared and established enough to interfere in such large-scale compounding pharmacies, as the NECC. However, the FDA’s excuse was not accepted.
Tennessee health officials deserve to get a gold medal for their efforts.
However certain persons think that they could avoid contamination, warnings about certain risks still exist. A lot of persons are still hospitalized. Others are visited by health officials. If any side results occur at injection sites of those who have administered the tainted steroids, they must contact doctors at once.