National Taiwan University Hospital transplanted the organs of an HIV-infected donor on Wednesday without realizing it, putting five organ transplant recipients at high risk of contracting AIDS, the Department of Health said yesterday.

The department said it was the first-ever known incident of recipients being exposed to the risk of contracting AIDS because of organ transplants.

The hospital informed the -department of the incident earlier in the day, Centers for Disease Control deputy director Shih Wen-yi (施文儀) said.

Shih said the hospital had offered emergency anti-AIDS medication to the five organ transplant recipients.

The hospital has not issued a statement on why the organs were not properly screened before the transplant or when it actually discovered that the donor had HIV.

The department has demanded that the hospital present a full report on the incident in three days.

Shih said the hospital had apologized to the patients and their families as well as briefed them on the situation. He added that to the best of his knowledge, the hospital had consistently conducted HIV-testing on organ donors.

“We don’t know at the moment what went wrong in this case, which has left five innocent organ recipients facing the risk of contracting AIDS,” Shih said.

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台大发生重大医疗疏失，除了让五名器官受赠病患极可能感染艾滋病，包括台大、成大两家医学中心，共有47名医护人员也暴露在感染艾滋风险。换句话说，因为台大内部沟通出问题，连同病患及医护人员，共有52人身陷艾滋恐惧之中。

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