A Shanghai local medical health center has been ordered to pay 2,000 yuan (US$241) in damages to a woman who lost her job as a food server because the center's medical staffers wrongly concluded that she had hepatitis B.
Making the wrong diagnosis was the city-run Medical Care Center under the Shanghai International Medical Communication Center. The woman, identified only by her surname, Wang, was hired by a local company on May 7 to work in its canteen, said officials of Jing'an District People's Court. When she underwent a physical exam at the medical center on June 6, Wang tested positive for hepatitis B. As a result, she was fired. Doubting that she actually had the form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus, Wang on June 30 went to Tongji Hospital, where she tested negative. In a second test at the medical center on July 30, Wang again tested negative.
(eastday.com January 29, 2002)
