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After their 2-year-old child tested positive for HIV, two parents in southwestern Guizhou Province hold the hospital responsible for him, The Cover reported on Thursday. an online information site. called by the pseudonym Xiaotian – smothered on a slice of apple and had to be sent to the maternal and child health care hospital in Guiyang, the provincial capital. Xiaotian spent nearly a month in the hospital after being admitted with a relatively simple throat obstruction.
When the state of Xiaotian did not improve, his parents took him in December to the Children's Hospital. at Chongqing Medical University, in sprawling metropolis about five hours drive north of Guiyang. There, they received the shocking news that the toddler had tested positive for HIV.
The parents were stunned. When Xiaotian was admitted to Guiyang Hospital less than two months ago, a routine blood test showed no trace of HIV. The mother, nicknamed Tang, told The Cover that during the month that her child had spent in the hospital's USI, she had been given few opportunities to see him. Tang added that she had followed all the orders and recommendations of the doctors – which included a blood transfusion.
"During my stay at Guiyang Hospital, my child stayed in the USI all the time," Tang said. "He was cut off from the outside world – even my husband and I were rarely allowed to touch him." When a doctor from Guiyang Hospital finally agreed to release Xiaotian in November, the child spent a day and half at home before his parents notice that he still had trouble breathing and took
Parents – both tested negative for HIV – reported their case to the Guiyang Health Department late The following month, they received an answer: An investigation had shown that neither the hospital nor the blood bank had done anything wrong.
The conclusion of the health department was a endless frustration for Xiaotian's parents. "If they did not do anything wrong, then where is the problem?", said Tang.
Friday afternoon, the Health and Safety Commission family planning Guiyang issued a statement saying that on June 28, she has opened an investigation in all relevant departments of the hospital. In total, 33 hospital staff members who had been in contact with the child were tested for HIV, the statement said, and all tests were negative. The statement continued.
The local commission reported the case to higher authorities, and the provincial commission promised to find the source of the infection. Four experts from the National Health Commission in Beijing will also attend the provincial survey.
In June, a laboratory technician from a hospital in Zhejiang Province was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating medical standards. leads to five patients infected with HIV. Following the verdict, netizens and legal experts complained that the sentence was too light.
Editor: David Paulk.
(Header image: A mother holds her child at a hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, November 21, 2017. Zuo Dongchen / VCG)
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