Medical malpractice: a CT scan carries the HIV infection
Imagine being sick and needing treatment and examinations in a hospital tac for example. Undergo this routine procedure, for later find out you have contracted HIV. It really happened in 2018 to a 32-year-old Spanish woman, suffering from “ovarian cancer, peritoneal carcinomatosis and ascites”, she experienced this nightmare at the Gregorio Maranon Public Hospital in Madrid.
Suspicion in the young woman was born when she began to accuse gods kidney problems, which, after further investigations, led to the bitter discovery. During the trial – as reported by El Paìs – the regional government defended itself “ensuring that the infection was not ‘related to the treatment received’ and that thehealth care provided had been “adequate and compliant with the law”. “It cannot be excluded that the HIV infection is linked to his activity as a dentist or to the treatment received in private centres”, one reads one of the defense theses.
However, despite the firm rejection by the public body, the truth was different and it was recognized. According to the judges in fact, considered “the existence of two positive cases of HIV on the date on which the CT scan was performed on the woman” and “previous hepatitis C infections that occurred in the same center and with the same test” they sentenced the hospital to compensate the woman for the damage suffered with a sum of 150 thousand euros for “non-compliance with work procedures”.
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