NewsWhore
02-26-2008, 02:30 PM
The Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (REDOVIH) is accusing the Dario Contreras Hospital of refusing to operate on a young patient who is infected with HIV/AIDS. REDOVIH president Dulce Almonte says that patients are being refused treatment at this hospital because they are HIV positive, which is in violation of article 20 of Law 55-93 on illnesses. Almonte is now calling on the Public Health Ministry to intervene. Almonte is quoted in Listin Diario as saying "we are tired of the discrimination of that hospital, we don't understand why human beings are sentenced to lose a leg, simply because they have that virus. Here all the doctors understand bio-security measures to treat a patient in the operating theater."
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