A former Michigan health care worker who is charged with infecting at least 30 New Hampshire patients with hepatitis C has ignited a public alert in metro Detroit for patients to be tested for the disease if they received injections when the man worked at four metro Detroit hospitals.
Officials say David Kwiatkowski, 32, worked at the hospitals in 2005-07, according to Pat Anstett in the Free Press. Kwiatkowski was employed from June-October 2005 at Sinai-Grace in Detroit and from October 2005-September 2006 at Harper University Hospital in Detroit. Both are part of the Detroit Medical Center. He also worked at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor from Sept. 11-Dec. 8, 2006, and at Oakwood Annapolis Hospital in Wayne from Jan. 15-Sept. 15, 2007.
Hepatitis C is a chronic disease that causes liver failure.
So far, there are no known Michigan cases tied to Kwiatkowski.
