Infected transplant patient a ‘mess’ - Health care

This is so very sad...not only hepatitis but HIV all at once...and the fact that she had been doing well on dialysis too and is only in her 30s..BD

'Most important person did not know'
"The (organ) procurement group knew, the hospital knew, but the most important person did not know," he said. "The people that dedicate their lives to these transplant surgeries, they're just great people, but they need to bring the patient into the mix and let them make an informed decision."

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines were violated twice, the attorney said. One violation was not informing the woman about the donor's status and then not testing her afterward for HIV until just recently, after HIV and hepatitis were found during tests on another patient who was being evaluated for a second transplant.

Gift of Hope tested the organs and approved them for donation, telling the three hospitals that they came from a high-risk donor. None of the hospitals has said publicly what patients were told, citing doctor-patient confidentiality. They also have declined to identify the donor, the patients and what organs they received, citing privacy concerns.

Infected transplant patient a ‘mess’ - Health care- msnbc.com