{"id":18952,"date":"2019-02-05T18:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=18952"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:11:58","slug":"nurse-injects-child-with-hiv-infected-needle-jailed-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/05\/nurse-injects-child-with-hiv-infected-needle-jailed-for-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse injects child with HIV-infected needle, jailed for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/ilvn73d7eqo2kfxxh42giwnt-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HIV-Infected-needle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb td-animation-stack-type0-1\" title=\"HIV Infected needle\" src=\"https:\/\/ilvn73d7eqo2kfxxh42giwnt-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HIV-Infected-needle-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>A Uganda hospital will pay out R36 000, after one of its nurses injected a two-year-old child with a HIV-contaminated needle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse in question, Rosemary Namubiru, has been sentenced to three years in jail for her negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing was handed down in the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabreakingnews.co.za\/2019\/02\/05\/nurse-injects-child-with-hiv-infected-needle-jailed-for-three-years\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Uganda hospital will pay out R36 000, after one of its nurses injected a two-year-old child with a HIV-contaminated needle. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}