Nurse Contracting HIV from Patient

I read "Nurse Contracting HIV from Patient" on BBC news website on Thursday, 14 February 2008. The article tells the story of the nurse who died seven years after been infected by HIV. The Nurse is Juliet Young who was infected when the needle slipped and pricked her thumb even that she was wearing gloves while she was taking blood from an infected patient in London's Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital. She died because of pneumonia after devolving Aids. Also, The court's decision is that it is an accidental death. Finally, there was only five cases where health workers contracting HIV from patient in The United Kingdom.

I was interested in this article because in English for academic purposes 1 core class i wrote one of my reading reaction journal about a doctor who made a mistake while doing a surgery to a patient causing him to die, and this story is the opposite of my article. These kind of story always interest me and made wonder of what we should do about it. Who should we punish and should we give the nurses reimbursements because these kind of things could happen to any one of us when he goes to the hospital. Actually, my friend Mohammad Alghiaeb had a similar experience when he went to the hospital, and the nurse asked him to do a blood test, and she pricked him a lot making his arms to bleed because she had no experience on doing this kind of tests. Any way, medical mistakes could happen to anyone, it could happen to patients and health workers. Therefore, we must find a solution for it and we must address the issues that lead to these kind of mistakes.