Tennessee health officials showed their competence

The meningitis outbreak resulted from tainted epidural steroid injections could have been prevented. But since the FDA didn’t utilize its power for this goal properly, more than 500 persons were contaminated with this disease and 39 recipients of the injections died.
Tennessee officials showed unbelievable competence under such circumstances. They were praised by legislators for their decisive actions.
It was announced that many individuals that had received steroid injections produced by the NECC experienced complications. When Tennessee health officials were informed about this situation, they enforced all health facilities to stop utilizing 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 didn’t hesitate 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 appeared to be incompetent. It didn’t use its power definitely in order to improve the situation. Then it attempted to justify its incompetence, claiming that its power was not cleared and established enough to influence on such large-scale compounding pharmacies, as the NECC. However, legislators didn’t accept the FDA’s excuse.
Tennessee health officials  deserve to receive a gold medal for their efforts.
Although some persons believe that they could avoid contamination, warnings about certain risks still exist. Numerous persons are still at the hospital. Others are visited by health officials. If any side symptoms occur at injection sites of those that have introduced the tainted steroids, they must contact health care providers at once.