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Rosemary Namubiru, a 64-year-old HIV-infected Uganda nurse has been charged with attempted murder after she was accused of deliberately injecting her blood into a two-year-old patient, The Sun Reports.
The nurse, while attempting to give an injection to a distraught child on Jan. 7, accidentally pricked her finger with a needle, according to AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy group that has been monitoring the ongoing trial.
After bandaging her finger she returned to administer the injection, apparently using the contaminated needle. Uncertain about whether the same needle was used, the child’s mother “became concerned about the possibility that her child had been exposed to HIV,” the group said.
After a test showed the nurse was HIV positive, she was arrested and prosecutors argued against giving her bail on the grounds that she posed a grave danger to the public.
She was eventually denied bail and sent to jail in an unusual case which many considers as a horrifying example of lax hospital standards reportedly believed to be prevalent in Uganda.
The nurse, while attempting to give an injection to a distraught child on Jan. 7, accidentally pricked her finger with a needle, according to AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy group that has been monitoring the ongoing trial.
After bandaging her finger she returned to administer the injection, apparently using the contaminated needle. Uncertain about whether the same needle was used, the child’s mother “became concerned about the possibility that her child had been exposed to HIV,” the group said.
After a test showed the nurse was HIV positive, she was arrested and prosecutors argued against giving her bail on the grounds that she posed a grave danger to the public.
She was eventually denied bail and sent to jail in an unusual case which many considers as a horrifying example of lax hospital standards reportedly believed to be prevalent in Uganda.
