由于工作人员重复使用本应被丢弃的医疗设备，中国一家医院已经承认五人为此意外染上了艾滋病。
A Chinese hospital has admitted accidentally infecting five people with HIV because a staff member reused medical equipment that should have been discarded.
据行政官员表示，一名技术人员将原本给一名艾滋病患者使用的吸管让其他病人重复使用。
Officials said that a technician reused a tube used to treat an individual with HIV on other patients.
目前浙江省杭州中医院的五名员工已经遭到了解雇。
Five people had been sacked at Hangzhou's Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine.
二十年前，低安全标准和监管不充分助长了艾滋在中国的蔓延，而这起医院事故的新闻也引发了来自社交媒体用户的震惊和批评。
Two decades ago low safety standards and insufficient regulation helped spread HIV/Aids in China, and the news of the hospital incident sparked shock and criticism from social media users.
“省级医院不遵守规程，作为普通公民我们信任谁？！”有人在中国版推特--微博上写道。
"A provincial-level hospital doesn't follow protocols, who can we trust as average citizens?!", wrote one person on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
另一个人写道：“这是被曝光的例子，那那些我们不知道的呢？这种事件一定很多!”
"This case is exposed, but what about cases that we don't know? There must have been many more!" wrote another.
2006年，就曾有19人起诉黑龙江一家医院输血导致他们感染了艾滋。
In 2006, a group of 19 people sued a hospital in Heilongjiang over transfusions from which they contracted HIV.