TORONTO — Toronto Public Health says it has the results for about a quarter of the patients potentially exposed to blood-borne viruses at a downtown gynecologist’s office, and that none of them contracted infections there.

The public health unit is releasing its final report on Dr. Esther Park a year after it was notified of a patient complaint last September and inspectors found medical instruments were not properly cleaned and disinfected at her clinic.

TPH sent letters in February to patients who received endometrial biopsies, IUD insertions or had cervical growths removed at Park’s clinic between Oct. 10, 2020 and Oct. 10, 2024 suggesting they get tested for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.

It says about 2,600 letters were sent to Park’s patients, and 622 test results were receive

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