Day 188 of The Tribunal
TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY Thursday 15th November 2001 Day 188 Today, the Tribunal heard the closing submissions of parties. The Tribunal began by hearing the closing submission of James Connolly S.C. on behalf of the Kilkenny health worker. The Kilkenny health worker was infected with HIV through a blood transfusion. The infected donor had given donations after the introduction of HIV testing. Mr. Connolly criticised the BTSB’s failure to carry out a proper look-back programme. He went on to say that it was clear that the BTSB had been aware of the AIDS risk from blood transfusion since 1983 onwards, but had failed to introduce any screening procedure in a timely fashion. The BTSB adopted instead, he said, a wait and see policy. He said that had adequate screening procedures been put in place, it would have been possible to prevent the infection with HIV of the Kilkenny health worker.
