Quick-result HIV testing is available in Beijing. [File Photo]

A patient under the alias "Xiao Feng" finally received a lung cancer operation after he concealed the fact that he was infected with HIV, Beijing News reported.

Xiao Feng, 25, was denied treatment by two other hospitals because of his HIV status. He is now recovering at home from the operation.

According to a medical record from the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Xiaofeng's blood tests revealed he was HIV-positive and the hospital deemed him unsuitable to receive the operation. Xiao Feng then turned to Beijing Ditan Hospital, which can receive HIV patients. But the hospital was not qualified to perform the operation he needed.

After that, Xiao Feng returned to Tianjin to try to get the operation done at another hospital, whose name was not mentioned in the report. But he was afraid that he would be denied treatment again if he told the hospital that he was infected with HIV. He then gave fake HIV test results to the hospital in order to hide status, after which he was treated successfully. Xiao Feng's relatives reportedly told the medical staff about his HIV infection after the operation.

Since non-infective disease hospitals with strict disinfection and isolation systems can receive HIV-positive patients, it is not necessary for these patients to go to designated hospitals, according to experts in epidemiology.

According to the AIDS Prevention and Control Regulations announced by China's State Council in 2006, HIV carriers should not hide their illness when seeing a doctor. Likewise, medical institutions should not deprive AIDS patients from receiving treatments for other diseases.

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