Tennessee health officials are praised for decisive actions

The meningitis outbreak resulted from contaminated steroid injections could have been prevented. But since the FDA didn’t utilize its authority for this goal suitably, more than 500 persons were contaminated with this illness and 39 recipients of the steroids died.
Tennessee officials showed competence under these circumstances. They were praised by legislators for their decisive actions.
It was reported that numerous individuals that 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 discontinue using medications 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 with no doubts and did everything in order to prevent further contamination and improve conditions of those that sickened.
If Tennessee health officials hadn’t acted so rapidly and competently, more individuals 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 authority decisively in order to improve the situation. Then it tried to justify its negligence, saying that its power was not cleared and established enough to interfere in such large-scale compounding pharmacies, as the NECC. But the FDA’s excuse was not accepted.
Tennessee health officials  deserve to receive a gold medal for their efforts.
Although some individuals think that they could avoid contamination, warnings about risks continue to exist. A lot of individuals are still at the hospital. Others are visited by health officials. If any adverse effects occur at injection sites of those who have administered the tainted steroids, they should contact doctors immediately.