A court in Kyrgyzstan has jailed nine doctors for infecting children with HIV in several hospitals across the south of the country, a judicial source said, cited by the Aki news agency.
The doctors were given prison terms ranging from three to five years and ordered to pay 10,000 dollars (6,500 euros) in damages and interest to the children and their families, after being found guilty of negligence on Tuesday.
AIDS/HIV Risk Associated with Blood Transfusion
AIDS/HIV risk associated with blood transfusion is very if blood is routinely screened by the blood test
AIDS/HIV risk associated with blood transfusion is very if blood is routinely screened by the blood test
Two doctors from the hospitals, as well as two more doctors at other medical centres involved in the country's blood transfusion system, were sacked in July 2007 for allowing the virus, which causes AIDS, to spread.
The health ministry said last year that the infections occurred "during injections and blood transfusions."
A similar scandal broke out last year in neighbouring Kazakhstan, where some 100 children were infected with HIV and 21 medical staff were sentenced to prison terms of up to eight years.
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Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general info about AIDS information and health education.
