FDA didn’t use its power to prevent contamination with meningitis

The meningitis outbreak resulted from contaminated steroid injections could have been prevented. But since the FDA didn’t use its power for this goal properly, over 500 individuals were contaminated with this illness 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 decisive actions.
It was reported that numerous persons that had received epidural steroid injections produced by the NECC suffered from complications. When Tennessee health officials found out about this situation, they enforced all health facilities to discontinue using drugs produced by the compounding center from Massachusetts. Moreover, they informed immediately about contamination health officials of other states. Actions of Tennessee health officials were quick and definite. They acted with no doubts 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 persons would have been contaminated with fungal meningitis and more deaths would have occurred.
As for the FDA, it showed incompetence. It didn’t utilize its power decisively in order to improve the situation. Then it tried to justify its incompetence, noticing that its power was not cleared and established enough to interfere in such large-scale compounding pharmacies, as the NECC. But legislators didn’t accept the FDA’s excuse.
Tennessee health officials merit obtaining a gold medal for their actions.
Although several persons think that they could avoid contamination, warnings about risks still exist. Many individuals are still hospitalized. Others are contracted by health officials. If any negative symptoms occur at injection sites of those that have introduced the tainted steroids, they must contact physicians at once.