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HIV discrimination under fire (2)

By Shan Juan and Wang Qingyun  (China Daily)

13:08, November 22, 2012

According to the discharge note Li provided to the media, Xiaofeng stayed in the hospital for more than two weeks. The note shows that he tested HIV-positive, and was "not fit to have surgery".

The man then went to Beijing's Ditan Hospital, a facility that specializes in treating infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS.

However, Ditan Hospital doesn't have a thoracic department, and thus couldn't perform surgery on the man, Li said.

"I got to know Xiaofeng on Nov 6, when he failed to seek surgery in the two hospitals," he said. "Another HIV carrier called me and told me his story."

Li said he knew Xiaofeng decided to fake the medical record he got from the cancer hospital and submit it to the third hospital. "Our strategy was to have the surgery done first, and tell medical workers that he is HIV-positive as soon as the surgery was finished."

Li declined to disclose the name of the hospital where Xiaofeng underwent surgery, but said the head of the hospital was "furious" when Xiaofeng's father told the hospital that Xiaofeng was HIV-positive.

Xue Lei, an HIV carrier and also a volunteer at Aizhifangzhou, an HIV-carrier rights advocacy group in Beijing, said the incident is by no means the first of its kind.

"We have seen many cases where hospitals refused surgery for HIV carriers. The root cause is that they are afraid that they might be infected with the virus," he said.

"I was severely injured in a car accident in 2010 and needed urgent surgery. When the blood test result came out after the surgery, the hospital doing the surgery told me that I must go to other hospitals for further treatment, such as hospitals assigned with the task to treat HIV/AIDS. It kind of forced me out after I stayed for seven days, while I needed at least a month to recover.

"Despite regulations, there is no punishment for hospitals when such incidents occur," Xue said.

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