Between 1988 and 1998 in various hospitals in Valencia 275 people were infected with hepatitis C. Four of them died (five, the last, who died a few hours before the ruling, is not covered by official count).
The largest mass infection of hepatitis C never happened in the world.
Juan Maeso was anesthesia in various public and private health centers of Valencia. A bright, vicious, though. With a penchant for opiates and the like. The doctor
satisfy his drug injecting some of the anesthetics given to patients before: the first sketch to him, then the syringe to inject the drug into the patient's IV. Thus spreading the infection.
Maeso was a luminary of anesthesiology English, the first capital of the País Valenciano, renowned as the first professional turned medical colleagues when they, a relative or friend had to undergo general anesthesia.
At 56 he was head of the Department of Anesthesia and maternal resuscitation Hospital de la Fe of Valencia (45 infected). Also served in the private health sector, particularly in clinical Casa de la Salud (228 infected), '87 to '97 and served on the commission created by the Generalitat Valenciana to combat waiting lists for public patients in private clinics agreement. A prestigious and admired physician and an authority figure of the 'elite Valencia. In addition to an original type that went around the city on a powerful motorbike and spent the holiday doing off-road expeditions in the deserts of Africa.
Of his weak opioids seems to be spoken around but, you know, the winner of the perfume intoxicates people around you. And the winner Maeso was powerful, well-connected, rich.
Each luminary infected applies to seven years in prison, nine each of the four died. A total of 1,933 years in prison but will carry no more than 22, the maximum sentence attributed by the English. The victims will be compensated with between $ 60 thousand and 120 thousand euros, depending on the severity of infection, 150 000 for the deceased. Paid by the Valencian Health, responsible for the practices of both public and private healthcare hospitals special agreement.
Not all victims have the right compensation in money can repay the lost health.
The English law provides that compensation would not be able to adjust to the worsening state of health: at the beginning of the process who had mild asymptomatic hepatitis will be compensated for that, even if in the meantime has developed an affliction hepatic impairment. A vacuum that the government and parliament will have to fill.
[source graphic and El País ]
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