• EnthusiasticVolatile@reddthat.com
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    23 hours ago

    This is somehow even more damning than lack of sex ed. It’s basically reversal of the last 100 years of medical progress towards single-use equipment.

    • KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org
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      18 hours ago

      Russian doctors do know how HIV is spreading. They do know that reusing single-use equipment is bad. If they are now starting to do that, this shows that there is a serious shortage of medical equipment in Russia.

      • ivan@piefed.social
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        2 hours ago

        I’ll just add that it may also simply be Soviet heritage of doctoral negligence. Fucking dentists, for example, didn’t properly sanitize their tools and were one of the main reasons of Hepatitis A spread. Most older folks in my family had some (thankfully mostly minor) medical issues, caused by Soviet medicine being utter shit.