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Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital
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Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital

Sep 3, 2026 Matt Houldsworth

Poznań Provincial Hospital tagged 12,500 surgical instruments with UHF RFID, then found chips detaching during sterilisation and turning up in patients' wounds. Several hundred tags were damaged in nine months,…

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