SPP: Hospitals broke procedure

Prosecuting departments in East China's Zhejiang and Shandong provinces have conducted a thorough investigation into two recent hospital malpractices that led to patients being infected by HIV and hepatitis B.

According to the Supreme People's Procuratorate, violations of operating procedures were mainly blamed for the contamination of patients' blood.

"We will pay close attention to the latest developments in the investigation and trace their progress, and supervise local prosecuting departments to properly handle the cases," said a senior official at the SPP's investigation and supervision department who declined to reveal his name.