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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: A trial court has directed the dean of the Institute of Child Health and Hospital in Egmore to pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation for transfusing HIV positive blood to a boy in 1998. Counsel P Uma, representing the family, submitted that the boy was 10 months old when he was admitted to the said hospital with diarrhoea and vomiting on February 26, 1999. His family then submitted a petition seeking Rs 25 lakh as compensation. She ordered the payment of Rs 20 lakh to the boy along with six per cent interest from 2009, when the case was filed. The hospital was also directed to pay Rs 1,50,010 to the victim as legal expenses and suggested that he be given a government job..