The central district court in the city of Voronezh, about 300 miles southwest of Moscow, said Monday that the plaintiff seeks 10 million rubles (more than $373,000) in damages for having received HIV-infected blood through a transfusion at a local maternity hospital.
The blood bank, which provides plasma for hospitals across the region, was stripped of its license last December following the detection of HIV in the blood of a woman who had donated eight times by then.
One of the institution's senior officials was taken to court on negligence charges after prosecutors established that he had failed to report to his supervisor the presence of infected blood in the blood bank's stock when the results of laboratory tests became known to him. But the case was eventually dropped under an amnesty.
A total of more than 200 people may have contracted the virus causing AIDS from the infected donor in Voronezh, but medical tests have only detected one such case so far.
