Contamination caused by infectious needles

Running Head: BUSINESS SOCIETY AND POLICY
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CASE
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Business, Society
and Policy
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BUSINESS SOCIETY AND POLICY 1
1. Identify & analyse the key issues raised in the case.
The following case study is based on the issue of contamination caused by coming in
contact of the infectious needles. The case study focuses over the issue of a company
Becton Dickinson that is the largest producer of medical supplies in the world whose
lenience and irresponsible behaviour took lives of thousands of people. In the following
case study, it is stated that because of improper design and functioning of the syringes
the medical suffered a lot. There are numerous cases witnessed where the nurses were
infected while removing an intravenous system, drawing blood from the body of patient,
delivering injection to an AIDS/ HIV positive patients (Schneider, et al., 2013).
There was no hospital left such kind of case was not witnessed. As Becton Dickinson,
supplied most of the medical assets to these hospitals all faced so similar issues.
As per the case study, around 12000 health care workers were annually exposed to blood
contamination and encountered to blood borne diseases. The diseases, which were widely
spread, were hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV positive. The staff suffered with these
diseases because of accidently coming in contact to the blood of an infected person. Dr.
Janine Jaegger marked a question that it is not the way of using tool, which is causing
problem rather it is the design of the needles, which is not good. Therefore, he suggested
that the design of the syringes should be modified in which there are less risks for the
nursing staff to be contaminated (Reid, 2012).
Another issue that came into the sight was that the nurses could not be educated how to
keep check over such difficulties during emergency conditions .
2. Analyse the various stakeholder interests in the case and identify the conflicts
between parties and the ethical dilemmas from the interactions of Business, Society
and Government within the case.
After reading the following case study, we got to know that various stakeholders had interest
in seeking benefits from the faults of Becton Dickinson. Along with this, there were conflicts
among manufacturers who wanted that Becton Dickinson should transfer the patent rights of
protected sleeve model. The case also enumerates the interaction between different
stakeholders, society and the influence of government over the whole issue. Numerous
stakeholders in the case study have participated in the issues of Becton Dickinson case. For
instance, the food and drug association (FDA), OSHA and other small-scale companies like
Retractable who produced medical assets demanded for change (McCaffrey, 2013). The
demanded that Becton Dickinson should either start producing the syringes with protected
sleeves or pass the patent rights of Sampson and Mitchell’s model of protected sleeve to other