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Nurse injects child with HIV-infected needle, jailed for three years

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A Uganda hospital will pay out R36 000, after one of its nurses injected a two-year-old child with a HIV-contaminated needle.

 

The incident happened in 2014 and the family and institution involved have since fought it out in a prolonged court battle, which concluded this week.

The nurse in question, Rosemary Namubiru, has been sentenced to three years in jail for her negligence.

Sentencing was handed down in the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court Tuesday. Read More

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