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Patients sue hospital over hepatitis infection

By Jane Chen | July 14, 2010, Wednesday | Online Edition

EIGHT kidney patients have brought a northwest China hospital to court, demanding 800,000 yuan (US$118,133.6) in compensation for their hepatitis infection allegedly contracted during the hospital's treatment.

One of the patients died in March due to kidney failure, today's Lanzhou Morning Post reported.

Baiyin District People's Court in Gansu Province's Lanzhou City heard the case yesterday.

The patients told the court that they underwent dialysis, a routine treatment for uremia, from March 2007 to January 2009 at the Baiyin No.1 People's Hospital.

After learning about a hepatitis C infection scandal at a Shanxi Province hospital, they took the test in May 2009 and October 2009, all confirming they had the infection that could end up in liver cancer.

They alleged they had only ever undergone dialysis at the hospital, and said its repeated use of medical equipment posed a higher risk of hepatitis.

They demanded the hospital pay 100,000 yuan in compensation to each.

But the hospital dismissed the patients' blame on its practice, arguing that hundreds of patients had received dialysis there and no one else had hepatitis.

The hospital said hepatitis infection can occur in many other ways than blood transfusion, such as during sex and at birth.

The patients suggested a medical assessment to determine whether their infection occurred during the dialysis treatment yesterday, and the court accepted the proposal.


It will decide a verdict based on the assessment results.

Three of the patients would continue dialysis at the hospital while the other four would change to Yinguang Hospital for the treatment, the report said.
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