Sources from the hospital have not officially confirmed the identity of the sick doctor and they have also declined any comment on his condition. However, the Banja Luka-based "Nezavisne Novine" daily on Monday said that this was about Ademir Sahimpasic who has his private clinic in Tuzla.
According to the Sarajevo-based "Oslobodjenje" daily, the gynecologist contracted the HIV virus while performing a surgery on a HIV-positive patient.
The state clinic hospital in Tuzla said that its department for infectious diseases had at the moment no patient with AIDS at hospital, but said that "one patient is receiving treatment" for this disease.
In the area of Tuzla there are seven registered HIV-infected people, and all of them live normally, needing no hospital treatment.
In the entire country, there have been 150 registered cases of HIV-infected people since the registration started in 1986.
Therefore, Bosnia is deemed to be a country with a low rate of danger of HIV infection.