FDA showed its incompetence during contamination with meningitis

The meningitis outbreak resulted from contaminated epidural steroid injections could have been avoided. But since the FDA didn’t utilize its power for this purpose suitably, over 500 individuals were contaminated with this disease and 39 recipients of the injections died.
Tennessee officials turned out to show competence under these circumstances. They were praised by legislators for their definite actions.
It was reported that a lot of persons that had received steroid injections manufactured by the NECC experienced complications. When Tennessee health officials found out about this situation, they enforced all health facilities to discontinue utilizing medications produced by the compounding center from Massachusetts. Furthermore, they informed immediately about contamination health officials of other states. Actions of Tennessee health officials were quick and definite. They acted with no doubts and did everything in order to prevent further contamination and improve conditions of those that sickened.
If Tennessee health officials hadn’t acted so rapidly and competently, more persons would have been contaminated with fungal meningitis and more deaths would have been.
As for the FDA, it appeared to be incompetent. It didn’t use its power decisively in order to improve the situation. Then it attempted to justify its incompetence, claiming that its power was not cleared and established enough to interfere in such large-scale pharmacies, as the NECC. However, legislators didn’t accept the FDA’s excuse.
Tennessee health officials merit getting a gold medal for their efforts.
Although certain persons consider that they could avoid contamination, warnings about certain risks still exist. Numerous individuals are still at the hospital. Others are visited by health officials. If any adverse results occur at injection sites of those who have introduced the tainted steroids, they must call health care providers immediately.