Helena Merriman
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If it's 30cc, we make it 15.
We can't give a full dose if we don't have it.
The needles that have been used, some of the syringes, are still seen lying on the table.
Some are closed, some are open, and they're still lying there as they were.
So these are all items that will be reused.
These are single-use items that are being used multiple times.
It highlights that the infection control training of our health care providers is very poor.
from dispensers to injectors to physicians.
So now we must warn our injectors, you have become an active instrument for passing disease.
We have to warn them that you have to move yourself to a safe practice.
In the same health care facility, high-risk children are coming in, infected children and uninfected children are coming in, OK?
They are all receiving injections.
The same injection apparatus is being used for infected, uninfected, at risk and not at risk.
And because of this, suddenly the low-risk individual has become a high-risk individual.
Going to the health provider has become a risk factor.
If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft is flawed?
In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed. Hundreds killed. But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it. It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories. I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series, I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story. What did they miss the first time? The History Bureau. Putin and the apartment bombs. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft is flawed?
In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed, hundreds killed.
But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it.