21 convicted in HIV infections
A Kazakh court convicted 21 medical workers of having roles in infecting scores of children with HIV.
The Shymkent district court gave suspended sentences to five senior health officials, including the district’s chief medical officer, according to the ruling by Judge Ziyadinkhan Pirniyaz. Sixteen other medical workers, including nurses and doctors in the city’s hospital and clinics, received sentences of up to five years.
The Central Asian nation has been shocked by the infections, which resulted from tainted blood transfusions and injections given to the children and 13 mothers.
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