One of 80 patients in Daye city is said to be infected with HIV virus by blood transfusion, the hospital has asked the province to compensate him and other patients.
He Zhang Kai (character has been renamed), 38, in the province of Wuhan discovered her HIV blood test after going back in September 2009. This man said he was taking a blood transfusion after surgery at Hospital No. 2 in Daye city, Hubei province, according to the Wuhan Morning Newspaper.
This is the case of HIV through blood transfusion was first discovered at Daye No. 2 Hospital since 1996. According Chunyang Xu, deputy director of the hospital Daye, approximately 80 patients infected with HIV by blood transfusion has been the virus.
Mr Xu said that in the 1990s, the hospital bought blood from people in four villages in the region, including blood taken from people who later discovered had been infected with HIV. Then, blood was transmitted to the patients need blood transfusion in this hospital without being verified.
After receiving the request for compensation, hospital Daye has agreed to compensate him 14,600 dollars Kai Zhang and bear all expenses for his treatment. However, these patients require hospitals to pay more for you each month about 100 U.S. dollars and arranged a job at the hospital for his son.
Last month 4 / 2005, Chinese police have arrested 15 people in the scandal of illegal blood selling, making HIV / AIDS for many others. These people involved in 106 cases of unsafe blood transfusions.
By the end of 2009, as reported by China, which has about 319.8 thousand people with HIV / AIDS and AIDS. However, according to estimates by the Chinese Ministry of Health, AIDS Prevention Programme and the UN World Health Organization, this figure up to 740 thousand cases.
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