[SC Swamp Fox]

One side effect of this is the lack of accountability of health officials. In Henan province, as a result of a failure to follow sterile procedures, the AIDS virus was given to hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting blood donors, many of them poor people trying to make money by selling their blood. Even after the problem became clear to local and provincial officials, they concealed the scandal for years and blocked others from engaging in reporting, research or prevention. The health minister and the mayor of Beijing have already lost their jobs for concealing cases of SARS from a WHO team, but the powerful Henan officials who hid the AIDS epidemic remain in office.

This is the first time I have heard of this.

[Dog Gone]

What I found fascinating is that the central government has virtually no control over the health care in the provinces. Nor does it give them much assistance.

Gone are the days of a communist system. These clinics must charge their patients in order to stay open.

[tet68]

It was posted here, seems they would take the blood and mix it all together and rebottle it.....