Police investigate needlestick injury, Port Macquarie | August 30,2023 | Port Macquarie News - video Dailymotion

Port Macquarie Police Chief Inspector Stuart Campbell provides an update after a child suffers a needlestick injury.

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00:00 At this stage we've received a report of a young 8 year old boy who has suffered a needle stick injury

00:06 at a public restroom on Koala Street at Port Macquarie.

00:10 It's a distressing incident and these types of incidents should not happen within our community.

00:14 This is a very rare incident and it's not typical to this area or many other areas as well

00:19 but we do urge people just to be careful when using public restrooms.

00:22 If you do find uncapped syringes there are contacts that can be made.

00:27 There is a New South Wales needle clean up hotline which you can contact

00:31 and they'll make arrangements for the needle to be collected and disposed of.

00:34 A big part of the investigation will be information from the public.

00:38 The incident did occur several days ago so we are appealing to the public for assistance.

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