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Bangkok Post - July 28, 2004
Piyaratch Jongcharoen
Phahonphonphayuhasena Hospital has rejected the accusations.
A local conservation group, Anurak Kan Club, led by Pinant Chotirosseranee, has volunteered to help the parents bring the dispute before the NHRC.
Yodsawat Chakkuphan, the boy's father, claims the hospital must have given his son, a long-time patient at the hospital, the infected blood.
The boy arrived at the hospital on June 25 after coming down with malaria.
He was pale, exhausted and thought to have anaemia so a doctor gave him a blood transfusion and sent him home.
He returned to the hospital on July 21 and was given more blood but was then tested HIV positive.
Dr Sayant Buranavanich, the hospital director, insisted yesterday that the boy did not contract HIV from any recent blood transfusions. He said the hospital suspected the boy might be infected with HIV when he was diagnosed with a fungal infection of the brain early this month.
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