Health officials, together with staff from the AIDS Center, checked the Central Almaty Clinical Hospital No. 12 after reports of HIV-positive patients, Informburo.kz reports.
The AIDS Center identified three HIV-positive patients at the clinic, the Almaty Public Health Department. Donors, health workers and contact persons were tested for HIV, all of them turned out to be negative.
The HIV was detected among patients during a control analysis, which is carried out one month after blood transfusion in intensive care.
“The results of the commission were handed over to the Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Control in Almaty, which began an unscheduled inspection of the hospital with the participation of specialists from the Kazakh Scientific Center for Dermatology and Infectious Diseases on June 14. The authorized bodies will take appropriate measures after the inspection,” the department said.
The Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan reported that they had begun an epidemiological investigation into the fact of HIV infection in the Central City Clinical Hospital.
According to Health Minister Azhar Giniyat, 4,000 people were infected with HIV in Kazakhstan last year. Two years ago there were 3,500 such cases.
“A special commission was sent to Almaty. They will conduct a full epidemiological investigation, find the source of infection, its route, and whether it was spead within hospital,” the Minister explained.
Source: Central Asian News Services