A housewife has planned to seek justice from the Ministry of Public Health over alleged negligence of a doctor at a hospital in Roi-et province who mistakenly diagnosed her of her being infected with HIV since she was eight and, as a result, has ruined her childhood and adolescent life.
Ms Suthida Saengsumat said on Wednesday that, since the diagnosis showed positive for HIV, she had to take anti-virus medication since she was eight, was rejected by her classmates and children in the same neighbourhood since childhood.
“I cried alone every night at home. No money could repay what I lost and I would like to speak to the doctor,” she said.
She stopped taking the anti-viral drugs five years ago when she was first pregnant. She said she had blood tests twice from the other hospitals five years ago and, the latest test on May 23 and the results were negative. Also, her husband and children are not infected.
Ms Preeyanant Lorsermwattana, chair of the network of people affected by doctors’ erratic treatment, said the network had received several complaints from people who suffered from doctors’ mistaken treatment.
She cited the case of a Phuket nurse who was wrongly diagnosed as infected with HIV, but who won a case against the doctor responsible for the blood test. Because of the wrong diagnosis, the nurse had to take anti-viral drugs for four years and lost an opportunity to work abroad.
(Source.Thai PBS)