Temple University Hospital is contacting and offering free hepatitis C testing to 312 patients who had procedures in the Interventional Radiology Department during the three-week employment of a medical technician accused of infecting 30 patients in New Hampshire, Temple said Friday.
Federal prosecutors said last month that David Kwiatkowski, 32, stole and injected himself with drugs while working at Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N.H. in 2011, resulting in 30 patient infections due to dirty needles.
It is unclear when he was infected.
He is known to have worked in at least 18 hospitals in eight states since 2003.
He was fired by several, including University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, in May 2008, and Arizona Heart Hospital, where an administrator said he was found unresponsive with syringes in a locker room, around April 2, 2010.
