  
March 24, 2010
Uzbek Doctors Accidentally Infect Nearly 150 Children With HIV
Doctors in Uzbekistan inadvertently infected 147 children with HIV between 2007 and 2008 by using unsterilized medical equipment, Agence France-Presse reports. By January of last year, 14 of those children died of AIDS-related illness.
“The mass outbreak was due to using catheters and syringes many times without sterilization,” Central Asian news website ferghana.ru reported. In addition, it stated, doctors falsified sterilization notifications and destroyed documents.
As a result, 21 medical personnel from Namangan and regional hospitals were sentenced to five to eight years in prison.
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dbeck, , 2010-03-25 16:10:58
They have no right to call themselves doctor at all. How sad for all those families.
Darren Mitton, Rome GA, 2010-03-25 16:08:10
And we are to believe this was an accident?
MaryLou, Trenton, 2010-03-25 10:16:16
The fact that they falsified and destroyed documentation of sterilization there was no 'accident' about this.. they did wrong, they knew they were wrong and tried to hide it. Jail is not good enough, they should have been convicted of attempted or in some cases homicide... premeditated !
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