10 in hospital have AIDS

10 in hospital have AIDS

SURABAYA: As many as 10 people currently being treated at
Soetomo General Hospital here have Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS), the chairman of the hospital's medical team for
the syndrome, Edy Soeyanto, said on Tuesday.

Soeyanto said among the 10 patients was a nurse who contacted
the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the condition which
causes AIDS, while working at a hospital in East Java.

"The nurse contacted the virus when she was helping an AIDS
patient. She probably had a wound and came into contact with the
AIDS patient's blood," he said.

Last week, a patient with AIDS, identified as I Gusti Bagus
Udara, 24, died at the hospital. Bagus, who was a tour guide in
Bali, was the third patient with AIDS to die this year at the
hospital. (nur/jun)