Patients speak out after thousands exposed to infection risk at Toronto gynecologist – CBC

Toronto Public Health says around 2,500 patients of Dr. Esther Park notified

Mar 06, 2025

Public health officials are warning some 2,500 people they may have been exposed to blood-borne infections at a Toronto gynecology office where medical tools were not properly cleaned.

Toronto Public Health said in a letter to patients that during a four-year span beginning in October 2020, tools at Dr. Esther Park’s clinic in the High Park neighbourhood weren’t cleaned properly, resulting in a “very small chance” that bacteria and viruses could have been passed from one patient to another.

Zahra Bakhsh was one of the patients who received the letter with the news that she could have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.

“I was enraged, I think I spent most of the day in shock and I felt quite ill by the end of the day,” Bakhsh told CBC Toronto.

Patients speak out after thousands exposed to infection risk at Toronto gynecologist – CBC

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