UDI reports 130 cases of uniformed HIV patients at Hospital San Borja Arriarán

SANTIAGO.- UDI deputy and president of the Chamber Health Commission, Juan Lobos, along with the party’s Secretary General, Víctor Pérez, stated this morning that there have been more than 130 cases of uniformed HIV patients at the San Borja Arriarán Hospital in Santiago.

Lobos also pointed out that the tests done correspond to blood donors and not to people who went to the hospital to have the exam performed or suspected that they might be carriers of the virus.  “These are people who assumed they were healthy and came forward altruistically to donate blood”, stated Lobos.

According to Lobos, the director of the blood bank at the hospital, whose name was not revealed, has left his position, “because he does not wish to be considered an accomplice in a tremendously serious situation for our public health system”.

Lobos indicated that he had access to documents that had informed the minister of more than 80 cases of positive test results for the Chagas disease, as well as numerous cases of Hepatitis B and C.