The "historical" trial of HIV and hepatitis C has begun – Telam

Today, three former executives of the Hemophilia Foundation began to be judged orally, after 30 years, for mbadive contagion of HIV and hepatitis C patients between 1979 and 1991, and the plaintiff's attorney, Gonzalo Giadone, considered it "historical now." more than a thousand people have died "and because" for the first time in Argentina, the directors of the National Academy of Medicine are judged ".

The debate is taking place in a sole proprietorship court, under the authority of Judge Fernando Machado Pelloni, Prosecutor Patricio García Elorrio, and the prosecution of Drs. Pedro Raúl Pérez Bianco and Miguel de Tezanos Pinto and the Prosecutor. lawyer Eduardo Biedma.

"A historic process has just begun in the country, after 30 years of mbadive infections with HIV and hepatitis C, which have claimed the lives of over a thousand people. is historic because the directors of the Academy are judged for the first time in the Argentine National Medicine ", the lawyer Gonzalo Giadone, who represents the victims, said during a dialogue with Telam .

The three accused for infections attended the hearing in Room A of Comodoro Py 2002, as well as the affected patients and their families: the trial began by reading the elevation at an oral trial.

"This is a serious illness that has caused mbadive contagion and sometimes death," said prosecutor, María Alejandra Mángano, as she recalled reading his accusation.

"The defendants have not informed patients of the possibility of contagion," he said in the prosecution. "The spread was therefore multiplied for people who had regular contact with them without proper prevention, because the infected people did not know that they had been infected."

It was the application of antihemophilic factors 9 and 8 "knowing that they were unreliable" and that they "had been rejected by Japan and the United States. United, "he said in his request for trial.