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"Hospital to pay for infected blood"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(05/12/06)
SIXTEEN patients infected with HIV when they received blood have accepted a
promised compensation of more than ten million yuan (RM4.59mil) from Bei An
Farm Hospital in north-eastern China's Heilongjiang Province, the Legal
Daily said on Sunday.
In June 2002, a patient was given blood provided illegally by people the
hospital paid to donate. In September 2004, the patient was diagnosed as HIV
positive at the First Affiliated Hospital of the Harbin Medical University,
and soon died of AIDS.
National disease supervision and control authorities later looked into the
case and concluded that the Bei An Farm Hospital was responsible for the
HIV-contaminated blood. The authorities found that at least 19 patients had
been infected by the hospital, two of whom have already died.
According to the survey report, a man and his wife were the sources of the
HIV-contaminated blood in all the above cases.
They had been living on selling blood to the Bei An Hospital and had died
earlier.
In the trial in June 2005, the director, deputy director and a doctor were
convicted and sentenced to jail terms of two, three and 10 years
respectively, and fined.
Zhou Bin, deputy director of the Shanxi Long Sheng Law Office, told the
paper the local intermediate court decided that the Bei An Farm Hospital
would first pay 100,000 yuan (RM45,853) to each patient in compensation, and
give 3,000 yuan (RM1,376) to each one every month until they die. — China
Daily / Asia News Network
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