The mother of an HIV-infected child pointed to the likelihood of infection in the maternity hospital

A child in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky could have contracted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the maternity hospital. On December 5, the child's mother shared her opinion with Izvestiya.

According to her, the baby was born prematurely, so at first she was with him in the neonatal pathology department. The woman noted that doctors warned her about the presence of HIV-infected children there and urged her to be careful when feeding.

"There was a milk room, a milk kitchen where all the feeding supplies were stored: bottles, nipples, formula. There was also a refrigerator where milk was stored. Mothers could decant milk and store it there. Everything was signed, of course, but I do not know any more facts of stay of sick people," she shared.

The mother added that the child never had injuries and wounds, so he could not get infected through blood. She also emphasized that in the family's environment there are no HIV-infected people who could infect the child.

Earlier in the Network there was information that in the maternity hospital in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky one of the nurses mixed up bottles and fed a newborn baby from an HIV-infected mother.

On the eve in Roszdravnadzor for Kamchatka Krai "Izvestia" reported that they are checking the information about the infection of the child.

At the same time, the mother of the infected shared with Izvestia that the results of three tests for the virus were positive, although the parents were negative. She noted that a criminal case has been opened over the matter.