ATLANTA — Thanks to an open records request, the site Z-Politics is reporting that Georgia’s five abortion clinics have faced multiple health code violations in past years.
When WSB-TV’s Lori Geary submitted the request, she uncovered the state does not inspect clinics every year, but when they have, serious issues have been discovered.
According to Geary’s report:
Those violations were for items like expired medications and medical instruments, including speculums. Others listed unsterilized equipment, sterilized and non-sterile supplies stored in the same room with a traffic cone, the vent in a biohazard room taped off with cardboard, soiled linens in surgical rooms and stirrups wrapped in duct tape. One violation was for iodine swabs to prevent wound infections that had expired 10 years ago.
Planned Parenthood, which runs an abortion clinic in Augusta, was slapped with a $1,400 fine after a 2011 inspection revealed 23 health violations. It would be two years before the state would return for another inspection in 2013.
