Numerous women are running the risk of contracting hepatitis C after it was found that they were injected with the virus at a privately run abortion clinic by an anesthetist. The clinic called Croydon Day Surgery is located in suburban Melbourne.

This news has put the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria on its toes as it tries its level best to secure its infection control policies.

The board has confirmed that there was nothing wrong in the overall clinical practices and they are directing an investigation whether the culprit, Dr. James Latham Peters, injected the virus on purpose. Another set of investigation is also happening, which is being undertaken by the police.

So far the investigation has proved that the victims who were studied share the same symptoms of the virus and they were all treated by the common anesthetist.

The board has terminated the anesthetist from practice after three women were inspected with the virus. The investigators are trying their level best to contact all the people individually which could be suspected of the virus but there is not surety as to how many of them will be receiving the calls.

Professor Nick Crofts from Nossal Institute of Global Health at Melbourne University said, "Whether someone in the position of being an anesthetist could develop such an obvious breach of infection control procedures I would doubt".