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Doctor at centre of tainted blood scandal will stand trial

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Doctor at centre of tainted blood scandal will stand trial

 

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Doctor at centre of tainted blood scandal will stand trialLast Updated Wed, 03

Aug 2005 21:37:05 EDT CBC News

 

A judge has ruled that Dr. Roger Perrault, the doctor at the centre of Canada's

tainted blood scandal, will stand trial.

 

INDEPTH: Tainted blood

 

 

 

 

Perrault was the former national medical director with the Red Cross.

He faces several criminal charges for his alleged role in the tragedy that left

thousands of Canadians infected with HIV or hepatitis C.

 

Last month Perrault's lawyer asked a Toronto court to drop the charges against

him saying his client suffered from heart disease and the stress from the trial

could kill him.

 

Perrault, 68, has had two heart attacks and open heart surgery. A cardiologist

testified in court that in spite of the condition Perrault should be able to

deal with the stress of even a long trial.

 

Perrault, the former director of blood transfusions, has been charged with four

counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and one count of common

nuisance endangering the public.

 

More than 1,000 Canadians were infected with HIV and up to 20,000 with hepatitis

C after receiving tainted blood products from the charity in the 1980s and early

1990s. It was one of the worst public health disasters in Canada.

 

As of 1997, about 3,000 people had died.

 

The trial is scheduled to begin in November.

 

 

 

 

 

" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit

are like men who are so afraid of being murdered

that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "

President Harry S. Truman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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