FOUR CONTRACT HIV VIRUS FROM UNTESTED BLOOD. Guwahati: In an alarming unprecedented development, four persons have tested HIV + after they were given blood while undergoing treatment for various ailments in a government hospital in Assam. A particular blood donor had given blood to all these four persons besides other donors. It has occurred in Mangaldoi Civil Hospital in Darrang district of Assam evoking sharp reactions from all over the State. Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered a high-level inquiry to fund out how those four patients contracted AIDS virus after undergoing blood transfusion in the government civil hospital. The chief minister has instructed an additional chief secretary of the State to submit the inquiry report within a month. A hospital source informed that one of the persons after testing HIV + filed an RTI application to know details about his diagnosis when he was undergoing treatment in the hospital few months back. When all his donors who had given blood to him were tested one of them turned out to be HIV +. Later, it was found that the same person had given blood to three other patients in the hospital including a woman who were also later tested HIV +. A senior official in Darrang district informed that it was yet to be ascertained exactly how many persons had contracted the dreaded AIDS virus after undergoing blood transfusion in Mangaldoi Civil Hospital as a number of persons had been given blood in the hospital.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:22:48 +0000
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