Hospitals may need to keep their hand rub under lock and key to stop patients drinking it for its alcoholic content, say doctors. Poison experts at London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital received 19 reports of intentional ingestion over 16 months. Accidental ingestion by children, and elderly and confused patients, is also a problem, they told the British Medical Journal.
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Boozy patients drink NHS hand rub - BBC Health News 30th November 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
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