at least six people receive HIV-infected organ transplants

It was the result of a series of errors and the pursuit of profit at the expense of patients, according to police. The private laboratory in Saleme, located in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, is under contract with the public health system of the city of Rio. This contract of eleven million reais, or two million euros, was signed to carry out pre-transplant serological tests, reports our correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, Sarah Cozzolino.

Police point to flaws in quality control of virus test reagent Like. The check, which normally has to be carried out daily, was deliberately reduced to a weekly check in order to save money.

There are also inconsistencies between the signatures on the examination results, stamped with the registration number of other doctors.

A tragic first in Brazil

The six recipients were infected by two donors: it involved the transplantation of a heart and two kidneys for the first donor, and a liver and two kidneys for the second.

Read more on RFI