SURGEON ACCUSED OF REUSING SINGLE USE ANAL INSTRUMENTS ON MULTIPLE PATIENTS

A New Jersey colon and rectal surgeon is facing legal troubles after he allegedly inserted single-use catheters into multiple patient’s rectums.

Attorney General Christopher Porrino says Dr.Sanjiv Patankar was overlooking sanitary practices, when he decided to reportedly wash and re-use anal instruments which are intended to only be used on one patient and then properly disposed of, NJ.com reports.

A New Jersey colon and rectal surgeon is facing legal troubles after he allegedly inserted single-use catheters into multiple patient’s rectums.

Attorney General Christopher Porrino says Dr.Sanjiv Patankar was overlooking sanitary practices, when he decided to reportedly wash and re-use anal instruments which are intended to only be used on one patient and then properly disposed of, NJ.com reports.

“It is appalling that a doctor would engage in such an unsanitary and dangerous practice,” Porrino said in the statement. “Through his alleged conduct, Dr. Patankar has demonstrated a reckless disregard for public safety that placed countless patients at risk of communicable diseases.”

Patankar's medical license has since been temporarily suspended by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, after a uncontested vote that ruled he “placed patients in clear and imminent danger,” the Associated Press reports.