Abstract: Hepatitis C is an infectious blood gtransfusion disease.A hospital is responsible for onus probandi on the causality of gtransfusion and infection.The reasons are as follows:Firstly,a hospital should be more careful than any other professions since its conduct is related with a person's life and health.Secondly,the conduct of a hospital is much more of technical nature and a hospital should have a complete master of materials and information.Consequently,if a hospital cannot prove the eligibility of the source of blood it should not enempt from the resposibi tities of causalities simply on the fact that another blood receiver is not infected.Therefore,the hospital should take the legal consequences of onus probandi inability.

Key words: hepatitis C, blood transfusion, causality, reverse onus probandi, determination of medical accident

摘要： 丙肝是一种经血液传播的传染性疾病。输血与感染两者是否存在因果关系必须由医院来承担举证责任。这是因为:第一,医院的行为涉及他人的生命与健康,因此,医生负有比其他行业须更谨慎的义务。第二,医院的行为是一种技术行为,资料与信息均在医院的掌控中。因此,医院在无法证明血源合格的情况下,仅以另一被输血者未感染丙肝的事实,不足以推翻因果关系的推定。"医疗事故技术鉴定"也未排除两者的因果关系,且不符合法定的形式要件,所以医院应承担举证不能的法律后果。

关键词: 丙肝, 输血, 因果关系, 举证倒置, 医疗事故鉴定