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A doctor in a Chinese medical hospital located in the eastern city of Hangzhou accidentally infected five patients with HIV after re-using dirty needles for treatment. The doctor is not under criminal investigation by the local health authorities.

The Independent UK reports about a serious medical incident recorded at the Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A doctor reported violated a medical procedure wherein they were supposed to dispose of syringes after use. This resulted in the AIDS-causing virus to be transferred into five of the hospital's patients. This report initially went viral on the internet but was later censored on social media.

Fears of the possible spread of the virus due to poor medical practice are now becoming a big issue due to the shocking news. The hospital, on the other hand, has been described as one of the best technical capacity hospitals in Zhejiang Province and is located just around 100 miles from Shanghai.

Meanwhile, according to the Tribune, it was a technician who employed a re-used tube in an earlier medical exam for an HIV-positive patient. No clear reports on what the five accidentally inflicted patients were originally being treated for. The hospital's website has been taken down after the incident and no hospital representative was available for comments on the current issue.

Most of the reports in China about the accidental HIV infections have already been deleted and the government statement about the incident is the only China media report available in online circulation. Several comments on social media pertaining to the incident have also been removed.

Continuous news blocks and deletion of comments and forwarding functions regarding the incident has been constantly being disabled by major Chinese news outlets and publishers. Readers are seeing this censorship as a disgusting move and believe that people should be enlightened with the truth.