Abbotsford News Friday, November 28, 2014
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Health care professionals need to be held to the highest standards In recent local news a health care facility was shut down for poor standards of hygiene and for unsafe procedures when using acupuncture neeDr. Chris Vallee dles. All health care professionals need to be held to the highest standards as our jobs are to always do the least amount of harm with our treatments. The reality of global healthcare is that there are different standards around the world depending which type of therapy is being regulated. In rural areas of India and China a doctor maybe doing many different duties and cannot always have a wealth of sterile tools on hand to do their job, but in life and death situation you do what needs to be done. In British Colombia all regulated health care professionals have a standard for their treatments and one of the most important ones for performing acupuncture is that the acupuncturist uses one time only needles which are discarded into a sharps container after use. This would be the same for a doctor who is giving a patient and injection, a dentist who is using a needle to andesitic a tooth to be worked on, or a physiotherapist who is doing dry needling. In 1999 after a therapist in Quebec who
was not licensed to practice acupuncture was caught reusing needles the CTCMA 109-2669 Langdon St. 604.850.0714 AbbotsfordDentist.com AbbotsfordDentist@shaw.ca (College of Traditional ChiSATURDAY APPOINTMENTS ARE AVAILABLE nese Medicine) made it DR. R.K. ARYA WE ACCEPT ALL INSURANCE PLANS mandatory to use only one time use sterile needles. The CTCMA primary role is to protect the public and they have had any experience with someby ensuring that their registrants only use one in the area. Make sure they are regisone time use needles it helps to protect tered with the CTCMA and with hopethe patients from the spread of germs and fully another professional association other harmful diseases. which they should documents proudly In 1847 while working in a hospital in shown in their offices. When at the clinic Vienna Ignaz Semmelweis a Hungarian use your eyes, does it look clean, is the doctor found that by washing his hands bathroom clean, do they have alcohol and between patients drastically lowered the soap close by, is there a sharps container spread of puerperal fever. Before that it was not common at all to wash your to put used needles in, and most imporhands and that the doctor could examine tantly ask to see a needle. All needles many patients without knowing he was should be in a sealed package and can spreading germs on to other patients. come in groups of 5 or 10 or some just in With the evolution of medicine we can a single package. now see all the benefits of using sterile Acupuncture is a very safe form of methods for treating patients. This is like medicine and when done properly can be swabbing an area of the skin that is about helpful to a person’s health care. As a pato be punctured by a needle. The cleaner an area is the less chance of infection. tient it is very smart to make sure that In British Columbia there are over 1000 you do your due diligence and ask the registrants with the CTCMA and some right questions. good suggestions about choosing an acuDr. Chris Vallee is a Doctor of Traditional puncturist would be to first ask friends if Chinese Medicine
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