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Original Post Date: 2008-01-10 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
The mother of a nine-year-old twin girl allegedly infected with HIV in a state hospital has turned to selling raffle tickets to pay her daughter’s medical bills.
Amid constant threats from debt collectors over Anna’s (not her real name) R30 000 medical bills, her HIV-negative mother is aiming to sell 600 tickets to cover the costs of her daughter’s treatment, medication and blood tests.
“I’ve only managed to sell 15 tickets because a lot of people seem to think that I’m running some kind of scam … but I’ll keep trying because I don’t know what else to do,” Anna’s mother said on Sunday.
Anna is one of 42 children suspected to have been “accidentally” infected with HIV while in South African hospitals, most of them state-owned, because of allegedly inadequate infection controls.
Although the health department has not established a register of alleged hospital-acquired HIV patients, spokesperson Sibani Mngadi claims that the risk of such infections has been significantly reduced because of improved infection prevention and control in state hospitals.
But, says Anna’s mother, this is “absolutely no help” to her daughter.
After discovering that Anna was HIV-positive in May last year and supporting the anxious child through an intrusive examination to rule out sexual abuse, she and her husband – represented by attorney Marietjie Hall – have consulted with forensic experts to discover when and how their child was infected.
They are now preparing to take legal action over Anna’s HIV infection. Anna’s parents have themselves been threatened with legal action from debt collectors for the National Health Laboratory Service – to whom they owe R8 000 for blood tests conducted on their daughter.
They also owe Red Cross hospital in Cape Town over R20 000 for their daughter’s treatment for viral meningitis and pneumonia, among other HIV-related illnesses.
Anna’s mother said she was “very worried” about the monthly R735 ARV bills she was receiving from Red Cross, despite repeatedly telling hospital staff that she and her husband were unemployed.
Red Cross spokesperson Diana Ross last week said that Anna’s parents were welcome to consult with the hospital’s financing department about their payment problems.
The pending legal action by Anna’s parents coincides with a R49-million Johannesburg High Court claim brought against Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital and the health and blood transfusion authorities by the HIV-negative parents of HIV-positive Baby M. Baby M went into Bara for a life-saving abdominal operation and, after a blood transfusion, allegedly came out with HIV.