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英國將取消“艾滋醫(yī)生”禁令
HIV sufferers could be allowed to work as surgeons and dentists

[ 2011-12-01 15:31]

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The Department of Health wants to lift the current ban because it claims any risk to patients is ‘very low’.

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HIV sufferers could soon be able to work as surgeons or dentists.

The Department of Health wants to lift the current ban because it claims any risk to patients is ‘very low’.

Health workers who are HIV positive are banned from performing most surgery or dental treatment in case they cut themselves with their instruments and infect patients with their blood.

They can become GPs, hospital doctors, nurses or midwives and carry out nearly all day-to-day tasks, including giving injections, which are considered low risk.

But the Department of Health wants to lift the ban because it says the chance of a health worker infecting a patient is ‘negligible’.

It has undertaken research suggesting the risk of a patient catching HIV from their doctor, dentist or surgeon is less than one in five million, similar to that of being killed by lightning.

Officials say the risk can be further reduced by ensuring any infected member of staff takes medication to reduce their virus count, which means it cannot easily be passed on.

There are 110 frontline workers in the NHS with HIV who would be affected by the rule change.

Since 2006 all members of staff who deal with patients have had to undergo compulsory blood tests to check whether they have the virus.

The Government says there have so far been no recorded cases of patients in Britain catching HIV from a healthcare worker, although it has happened abroad.

In the US a dentist with HIV infected six patients, while a gynaecologist in Spain passed on the illness to one woman. And in France a nurse is known to have passed on the virus to one patient and an orthopaedic surgeon infected another.

The Department of Health launched a consultation yesterday on its proposals to lift the ban and in the next few weeks will gather feedback from organisations and the public.

Under the proposals, HIV-infected health workers would have to be given ‘combination antiretroviral drug therapy’ to reduce the virus count so it could not be transmitted. They would also have to undergo tests to check the virus count was low before they could perform surgery and other procedures.

(Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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英國的艾滋病病毒（HIV）感染者不久后有望從事外科醫(yī)生或牙醫(yī)的工作。

英國衛(wèi)生部希望取消目前的禁令，并表示這是因為這樣做對病人的風險“非常低”。

目前，HIV病毒陽性的醫(yī)護人員被禁止從事大部分外科或牙科治療，以防他們使用儀器時割破皮膚，導致血液傳染。

但他們可以成為非專科醫(yī)生、住院醫(yī)生、護士、或助產士，并開展幾乎所有的相關日常工作，包括被認為風險很低的注射。

但英國衛(wèi)生部希望取消這一禁令，原因是醫(yī)護人員感染病人的幾率“可以忽略不計”。

據英國衛(wèi)生部開展的調查，醫(yī)生、牙醫(yī)、或外科醫(yī)生將HIV病毒傳染給病人的風險還不到500萬分之一，和雷擊致死的幾率類似。

官員表示，如能確保所有感染病毒的醫(yī)護人員服用藥物，以減少病毒數量，他們就很難把病毒傳給別人，這一風險就可以進一步降低。

英國國家醫(yī)療服務體系中有110名第一線的醫(yī)護人員是HIV病毒感染者，他們將因禁令取消而受益。

自2006年以來，直接接觸病人的所有醫(yī)護人員都必須驗血，檢查是否感染HIV病毒。