The historic trial for the massive spread of HIV and hepatitis has begun

After thirty years, three former executives of the Haemophilia Foundation began to be judged yesterday for the mbadive spread of HIV and hepatitis C patients between 1979 and 1991, an episode that cost lives to more than a thousand people.

The procedure, which is under the jurisdiction of Judge Fernando Machado Pelloni and is taking place in the courts of Comodoro Py, is accused of doctors Pedro Raul Perez Bianco and Miguel de Tezanos Pinto and lawyer Eduardo Biedma.

"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. It is historic because the directors of the National Academy of Medicine are being tried for the first time in Argentina, "said lawyer Gonzalo Giadone, who represents the victims.

"It was a serious illness that caused mbadive infection and sometimes death. The defendants did not inform patients of the possibility of contagion ", which" multiplied the contagion to people who had regular contact with them without appropriate prevention, because infected persons did not know that They had been infected, "said prosecutor María Alejandra Mángano to Open your accusation yesterday.

The infections were caused by the application of antihemophilic factors 9 and 8 "knowing that they were unreliable" and claiming that they "had been rejected by Japan and the United States. United States, "said the prosecutor.

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, announced that he was ready to answer questions. He will be questioned at the next hearing, scheduled for Monday 26th.