14 63. On the same day, Pablo Arturo Monsalve made another statement giving more details as to TGGL’s clinical condition on June 22, 1998. He also provided information on his role at the Red Cross Blood Bank and on the procedures at the said institution.64 64. On December 1, 1998, Edith Alexandra Orellana made another statement. At this point she indicated that Mariana Ramírez had taken the blood samples. 65 65. On December 11, 1998, the Fourth Court, together with expert witnesses, convened at the branch of the Red Cross in order to establish the details of the functioning of the Blood Bank and to solicit information from the personnel. Specifically, information was requested about the donors and the deliveries made during the period covering the date when the blood from the donors of TGGL was received. A document showing a detailed account of the blood given to the girl and the blood extracted to prepare the platelets was also requested.66 66. On December 14, 1998, Mariana Ramírez Ramírez, a nursing assistant at the Red Cross Blood Bank, made a statement. She had taken the blood samples from the two donors on June 22, 1998, and had “dispatched” the blood, leaving the platelets ready to be “dispatched” by another individual.67 67. On December 14, 1998, TGGL’s mother lodged a gynecological certificate issued on October 27, 1998, and three negative tests results for HIV for herself, TGGL’s brother and father, in order to show that no members of the family were carriers of the HIV virus.68 68. On December 17, 1998, TGGL’s mother requested that the Fourth Criminal Prosecutor of Azuay (hereinafter the “fourth prosecutor”) summon Mr. Rolando Ordoñez and Janeth Pérez to make statements as to why they had gone to the Cuenca Red Cross to donate blood, the date and time that they had done so, and whether they knew who the blood was for or what would be done with it. 69 69. On December 18, 1998, TGGL’s mother asked that the Director of the “INHL” be requested to order Dr. Eduardo Vidal Ochoa70 – Head of the AIDS Laboratory, Microbiologist Two, at the “Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez” National Institute of Hygiene – to appear in order to make a statement, which he made on December 23, 1998.71 This individual made a statement as to the receipt of TGGL’s blood serum sample on July 28, 1998, for the purpose of the HIV testing unavailable at the Red Cross. 72 64 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. Statement of Pablo Monsalve of November 23, 1998. Folios 307 and 308. 65 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. Statement of Edith Orellana of December 1, 1998. Folio 309. 66 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. Order to inspect the Red Cross Branch. Folio 32. 67 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. Statement of Mariana Ramírez Ramírez of December 14, 1998. Folio 33. 68 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. TGGL’s mother’s brief presented on December 14, 1998, and results of HIV tests on TGGL’s mother, brother and father. Folios 35 – 38. 69 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. Brief of TGGL’s mother presented on December 17, 1998. Folio 39. 70 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. TGGL’s mother’s communication of December 18, 1998. Folio 40. 71 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. Statement of Dr. Eduardo Vidal Ochoa. Folios 40 and 41. 72 Annex 2. Court File. Second Criminal Court of Cuenca. Incorporated into Annex 1, Court File. Civil Action No. 323 05. Superior Court of Justice of Cuenca. First Chamber. Statement of Dr. Eduardo Vidal Ochoa. Folios 40 and 41.