Wrong HIV diagnosis: 2 Xi'an hospitals sued
By Jane Chen |
July 3, 2010, Saturday
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TWO hospitals in Xi'an City, capital of Shaanxi Province, have been sued for an alleged wrong HIV diagnosis on a 70-year-old woman and for consequently publishing her information online.
The woman, surnamed Cao, on Thursday filed a lawsuit at the Xishan District People's Court in her hometown in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, the Kunming-based City News reported yesterday.
She has demanded that the Xi'an Disease Control and Prevention Center and the Xi'an No. 5 Hospital delete her information from the website and apologize for the wrong diagnosis as well as pay 100,000 yuan (US$14,747.7) in compensation.
Cao said she visited the Xi'an No. 5 Hospital for a lung disease check in September 2008, where she was diagnosed as carrying the HIV virus. The hospital sent her blood sample to the disease control center for a double-check in October and her infection was confirmed.
Her personal information was then uploaded to a national medical intranet for AIDS/HIV, which is accessible to all medical institutions across the nation.
In February last year, she moved to the Kunming Infectious Disease Hospital and was surprised when she was cleared of the HIV infection.
Cao then launched the lawsuit against the Xi'an hospitals, demanding compensation worth 10,000 yuan for HIV treatment and 90,000 yuan for mental anguish.
In fact, the Xi'an Disease Control and Prevention Center was earlier ordered to pay compensation in another case of wrong HIV diagnosis in 2006, according to Cao's lawyer Zhang Honglei.
The center had cited four possibilities in the mistake: a mistake in collecting the blood sample; the sample was polluted; a mistake by the laboratory; and the patient recovered on her own.
Dean Yang Shaomin with the Yunnan Infectious Disease Hospital believes Cao's blood sample could have shown a false positive when being tested at the Xi'an hospitals due to her then poor immunity resulting from the lung disease.
The woman, surnamed Cao, on Thursday filed a lawsuit at the Xishan District People's Court in her hometown in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, the Kunming-based City News reported yesterday.
She has demanded that the Xi'an Disease Control and Prevention Center and the Xi'an No. 5 Hospital delete her information from the website and apologize for the wrong diagnosis as well as pay 100,000 yuan (US$14,747.7) in compensation.
Cao said she visited the Xi'an No. 5 Hospital for a lung disease check in September 2008, where she was diagnosed as carrying the HIV virus. The hospital sent her blood sample to the disease control center for a double-check in October and her infection was confirmed.
Her personal information was then uploaded to a national medical intranet for AIDS/HIV, which is accessible to all medical institutions across the nation.
In February last year, she moved to the Kunming Infectious Disease Hospital and was surprised when she was cleared of the HIV infection.
Cao then launched the lawsuit against the Xi'an hospitals, demanding compensation worth 10,000 yuan for HIV treatment and 90,000 yuan for mental anguish.
In fact, the Xi'an Disease Control and Prevention Center was earlier ordered to pay compensation in another case of wrong HIV diagnosis in 2006, according to Cao's lawyer Zhang Honglei.
The center had cited four possibilities in the mistake: a mistake in collecting the blood sample; the sample was polluted; a mistake by the laboratory; and the patient recovered on her own.
Dean Yang Shaomin with the Yunnan Infectious Disease Hospital believes Cao's blood sample could have shown a false positive when being tested at the Xi'an hospitals due to her then poor immunity resulting from the lung disease.
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