Reuse medical devices to contain healthcare costs: Experts to Sahpra

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Leading academics and surgeons have raised concerns about the country’s strict stance of not reusing some single-use medical devices, labelling the early discarding of some of these very expensive devices as not only wastage, but as a threat to the environment.

In a letter published in the SA Medical Journal, experts urge the country’s regulator, the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority to reconsider its guidelines relating the use of these medical devices.that in a country such as SA that battles with a

Despite the widespread practice of reprocessing of single-use devices across the globe and strong evidence that shows they can be safely sterilised, the experts argue that the country’s regulator has been unwilling to consider their re-usage.

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