可怕! 浙江某醫院技術人員操作違規致5人感染艾滋!

A Chinese hospital has admitted accidentally infecting five people with HIV because a staff member reused medical equipment that should have been discarded.

由於工作人員重複使用本應被丟棄的醫療設備，中國一家醫院已經承認五人爲此意外染上了艾滋病。

Officials said that a technician reused a tube used to treat an individual with HIV on other patients.

據行政官員表示，一名技術人員將原本給一名艾滋病患者使用的吸管讓其他病人重複使用。

Five people had been sacked at Hangzhou's Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine.

目前浙江省杭州中醫院的五名員工已經遭到了解僱。

Two decades ago low safety standards and insufficient regulation helped spread HIV/Aids in China, and the news of the hospital incident sparked shock and criticism from social media users.

二十年前，低安全標準和監管不充分助長了艾滋在中國的蔓延，而這起醫院事故的新聞也引發了來自社交媒體用戶的震驚和批評。

"A provincial-level hospital doesn't follow protocols, who can we trust as average citizens?!", wrote one person on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

“省級醫院不遵守規程，作爲普通公民我們信任誰？！”有人在中國版推特--微博上寫道。

"This case is exposed, but what about cases that we don't know? There must have been many more!" wrote another.

另一個人寫道：“這是被曝光的例子，那那些我們不知道的呢？這種事件一定很多!”

In 2006, a group of 19 people sued a hospital in Heilongjiang over transfusions from which they contracted HIV.

2006年，就曾有19人起訴黑龍江一家醫院輸血導致他們感染了艾滋。