Thursday, March 30, 2006

Woman who allegedly got HIV in hospital dies (NST 29.3.06)

SEGAMAT, JOHOR: Felda settler Norizan Ismail died last Friday, four years after allegedly contracting HIV in hospital.

Her husband, Rosli Mansor, 49, said she could not accept the fact that her decision to deliver her ninth child in a hospital had resulted in her contracting the disease.

"She prayed and hoped that she would live long enough to see all the children attain adulthood, but it was not to be," said Rosli.

Norizan, 46, of Felda Palong Timur, is believed to have been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at Segamat District Hospital. She was later diagnosed HIV-positive.

From NST 31/3/06: Norizan had a transfusion of 11 pints of blood on July 17, 2001 after an emergency Caesarean section when she was seven months’ pregnant.

She was in a coma for a week and her baby only survived for 18 days.

A year later, two health officers went to her home and took samples of her blood as well as her husband’s. They confirmed that Norizan was HIV-positive and admitted that the last pint of blood was tainted with the virus.

Ulasan: Pihak hospital (kerajaan BN) di bawah Menteri Kesihatan patut bertanggung jawab, sekiranya siasatan pihak bebas mendapati hospital benar cuai, membantu mangsa dalam berbagai segi. Tapi kini mangsa yang tidak berdosa telah pergi meninggalkan kita. Kita yang masih hidup sebagai saksi apakah kejadian akan berulang lagi pada masa depan…

Mentang-mentang orang miskin, tidak siapa membela. Sewajarnya pihak kerajaan membelanya.

Selama 50 tahun kita terlalu taksub memilih BN (dulunya Perikatan) menjadi kerajaan Malaysia. Undi kita rakyat yang miskin menjadikan mereka terus berkuasa sehingga mereka tidak kenal siapa kita. Kita yang telah berbakti kepada mereka. Hasilnya dari pandangan mereka : Mereka buat apa pun rakyat tidak kisah, rakyat akan pilih kami sebagai kerajaan Malaysia.

Inilah akibat terlalu menyokong sekian lama, hingga BN tidak kisah apa yang berlaku dengan kita…

Nak sokong lagi selepas ini?

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