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Samantha Poling investigates concerns about the quality of instruments used in the NHS, and travels to Pakistan where she finds an industry blighted by poor quality control.

麻豆官网首页入口 Scotland investigates concerns about the quality of surgical instruments being used on patients in the UK. Reporter Samantha Poling hears from those working inside the NHS who claim that tools with dangerous defects are being supplied to hospitals.

The film travels to Pakistan, where the majority of the world's surgical instruments are made, and finds an industry blighted by poor quality control and child labour where workers manufacture tools for 拢2 a day. Reporter Sam Poling asks whether the NHS is sourcing goods ethically and is doing all it can to protect the health of its patients.

1 hour

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Reporter Samantha Poling
Producer Liam McDougall

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