Woman suffered paralysis of her right arm after donating blood
The Japanese Red Cross Society has agreed to pay 71.8 million yen (725,900 USD) to a woman who suffered paralysis of her arm after donating blood at a Red Cross event in Osaka:
According to the suit, a nurse improperly inserted a needle in the woman’s right arm. Another nurse then took over, and despite pleas of the donor to try a different location, spent 20 minutes moving the needle about in an unsuccessful effort to draw blood.
The woman was later diagnosed as having reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a result of nerve damage inflicted by the Red Cross nurse.
The woman had originally sought 130 million yen in damages from the Red Cross.
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