A historical trial of mass transmission of HIV and hepatitis C has begun

"A historic process has just started in the country, after 30 years of mbadive infections with HIV and hepatitis C, which have claimed the lives of over a thousand people. 39 is a historic event because the administrators are judged for the first time in Argentina of the National Academy of Medicine, "he said during a dialogue with Télam l & # 39; lawyer Gonzalo Giadone, who represents the victims.

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

"It was a serious disease that caused mbadive infection and sometimes death," said the prosecutor who investigated the case, María Alejandra Mángano, as she recalled while reading his accusation.

"The accused has not informed patients of the possibility of contagion (SIC)," he said in the prosecution, and as a result "the spread (SIC) has been multiplied for people who had regular contact with them without proper prevention, because infected did not know that they had been infected. "

It was the application antihemophilic factors 9 and 8 "knowing that they were unreliable" and that they "had been rejected by Japan and the United States"he was reminded in the requirement of elevation to a trial.

From the beginning of 2000, some of those affected began to die, whose names were recalled to the hearing. For the prosecution, there was an "obvious carelessness" in the accused 's professional duty: "A dangerous and contagious disease (SIC)" such as HIV has spread, l'. accusation has been warned.

Pérez Bianco is currently retired physician, was medical director of the Foundation and currently lives in Arraial D'ajuda, Brazil.

Tezanos Pinto was a medical advisor to the Foundation and Biedma, secretary of the board.

After reading the prosecution, the defendants Pérez Bianco and Tezanos Pintos refused to avail themselves of the possibility of being investigated and asked to incorporate, after reading, the transcripts of their respective investigations at the investigation stage.

The third defendant, Biedma, has announced his willingness to answer questions on which he will be the subject of an investigation at the next hearing., which is scheduled for Monday, August 26th.

In addition, 64 witnesses are expected at the trial, including patients, relatives of the victims, doctors and nurses of the Hemophilia Foundation and former employees of AFIP and Customs.

The case was opened in 2005 by a complaint of the lawyer Gonzalo Giadone and fell first in the hands of the Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio, who was struck off the role by the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires for putting an end to investigation.

The procedure resulted, by lot, in judging Sebastián Ramos after the Federal Chamber annulled the dismissals on the orders of the crimes that Bonadio had dictated.

On this occasion, cameramen Jorge Ballestero, Eduardo Freiler and Leopoldo Bruglia affirmed that Bonadio had departed from what the criminal court of appeal had already indicated that had already determined that the action was not extinguished.