Potential HIV, hepatitis exposure at Toronto clinic has patients worried [Video]

Karin Martin couldn’t sleep last Sunday night after reading a letter from Toronto Public Health that drowned her with worry.

It was sent to 2,500 patients who had potentially been exposed to bloodborne viruses including HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C due to what the agency described as a failure to properly clean, disinfect and sterilize medical instruments at gynecologist Dr. Esther Park’s office in the city’s west end.

The letter said patients who received endometrial biopsies, IUD insertions or had cervical growths removed at the clinic between Oct. 10, 2020 and Oct. 10, 2024 should get tested for potential infection.

“How do you even process that?” Martin said.

She had three biopsies with Park last spring and summer before she was diagnosed with uterine cancer and went into an emergency surgery in September with another physician, followed by a hefty recovery period.

“I was just trying to put it all behind me. And then when I got …