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FREEDOM INSUFFICIENT FOR BULGARIA’S NURSES, COMPENSATION NEEDED
09:02 Fri 23 Feb 2007
 

Bulgaria’s nurses and the Palestinian medic sentenced to death for deliberate HIV infection Libya lack reasons for committing such crime.

The Palestinian medic was born in Libya and the nurses had left their homeland to earn money abroad, London-based newspaper in Arabic Al Quds al Arabi said.

In the absence of real institutions Libya was experiencing crisis, Al Quds al Arabi said. Any illiterate and corrupted intriguer could by-pass all traditions and laws in the country, the report said.

After 37 years of revolution Libya ’s hospitals and medical centres were still poorly developed. Import of new high-tech medical equipment was loudly announced but it was left unused in storehouses. Hospitals lack qualified personnel, laboratories and equipment.

The medics were powerless victims and freedom is not enough. They should receive official excuse and financial compensation enough to cover the expense of the medical treatment would need for years.

 
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Comments by Mickey Grant - 07:06 23 Feb 2007
Your article indicates this medical equipment was left in storage houses. That is not true. During the trade embargo against Libya, kaddafi sold this equipment in large quantities to the black market as well as other countries. The nurses often bought supplies for their work on the black market. My film INJECTION deals with this aspect. You can view it at the following on Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5182317638126553942&q=injection&hl=en
Comments by Paul Haviland - 14:23 23 Feb 2007
I urge everyone to view Mickey Grant's film, as it goes a long way toward explaining how this mass HIV infection (and others throughout the developing world) have been allowed to occur. At this very moment 21 health officials and personnel in Kazakhstan are on trial for an identical outbreak of HIV among children; but at least in Kazakhstan the government is apparently trying to discover the real causes, and has sacked the health minister and his officials. Obviously in Libya the problem is different: a regime that does not dare to tell its own population the truth about incompetence and corruption in the supply of medical equipment.
 
 
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