Bad Blood

A patient died from what appears to be an erroneous blood transfusion. No one has been prosecuted and investigations are sluggish.

February 20, 2001

Yunus Yans Kesek from Pondang village in the Tombasian subdistrict of Minahasa regency in North Sulawesi probably never have expected that his life would end in a hospital. He died last September, allegedly after receiving the wrong blood type. But the case has never been brought to court.

It began when Yans felt a pain in his abdomen and needed surgery. The 42-year-old man had a similar operation in 1999, but suffered a relapse a year later. A

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