MP News: Panel To Probe HIV Blood Transfusion To 4 Kids In Satna District Hospital, Says Dy CM Rajendra Shukla

Bhopal (madhya Pradesh): Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla said that the government has constituted a high-level committee to investigate the alleged HIV blood transfusion to four thalassemia kids in Satna district.

It is also being investigated whether the blood transfusion took place in other hospitals also or only in the government hospital, said the minister while addressing media persons on Tuesday on completion of two years of BJP-led state government.

Four children suffering from thalassemiaSatna district have tested HIV positive at Satna District Hospital. allegedly due to contaminated blood transfusions. The affected children, aged between 12 and 15 years, received blood transfusions from the hospital's blood bank.

Shukla said that he has ordered a probe into the matter and sought a report.

Replying to a query on rodent menace in government hospitals, the minister said, “Medical colleges, hospitals which have been constructed before 1970, will be dismantled for reconstruction to get rid of rodent menace. Rs 712 crore has been sanctioned for Indore and Rs 322 crore for Rewa Medical College. Reconstruction of five medical colleges—Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur and Rewa—are on agenda.

He further said, The government is making recruitment against 30,000 posts to keep proper manpower in PHCs, CHCs in rural areas with better salary packages. Around 110 posts will be filled through forensic experts in the state.

People should adopt TB patients as they are provided better nutrition kits worth Rs 6,000 so it is not a very costly affair.

There will be trauma centres at every 75 kilometres on prominent state highways said Shukla, adding that Obstetric icu and HDU will be opened in  52 districts.”

6-member committee to probe HIV blood transfusion

Health department has constituted a six-member committee for investigation of HIV blood transfusion in Satna. The committee will give report in seven days.

The members of the committee are Dr Satya Awadiya, regional director, Rewa division; Dr Rubi Khan, deputy director (health); Dr Romesh Jain (AIIMS), Dr Sima Naved (BMHRC); Sanjiv Jadon (senior drug inspector, Hoshangabad) and Priyanka Chaubey (FDA inspector, Bhopal.)

Kids down with thalassemia given HIV-infected blood

The blood bank of the district hospital has committed an error for which four children have been afflicted with HIV, hospital sources said.

Those children were suffering from thalassemia. Such children require regular blood transfusion, but the blood bank provided them with HIV-infected blood.

According to hospital sources, the incident took place four month ago. The four children came to the district hospital for blood transfusion for thalassemia.

Blood donors voluntarily give blood for transfusion. In the process, when the hospital management had some doubts about the blood, they checked whether there was HIV in the blood or not.

All four children were infected with HIV, which indicated that the blood bank did not check the blood.

It also signifies that those who donated blood were afflicted with HIV, hospital sources said.

Some pregnant women were also given HIV-infected blood. Although those women did not visit the hospital again, a few officials of the district hospital, requesting anonymity, said some women may have been afflicted with HIV.

The hospital management came to know of it four months ago, but they could not trace the HIV-infected blood donors.

Collector Satish Kumar S has sought a report from the chief medical and health officer.