By Anirban Ghosh
KOLKATA: West Bengal's greatest blood bank Maniktala Central Blood Bank is within the eye of a typhoon. It has been disclosed that previously six weeks, greater than 1500 devices of blood were thrown away. All these devices were way past expiry dates, with the incident creating a stir.
With people returning empty passed from blood banks even at times of dire need, the infuriated lot began raising difficult questions.
On March 19, the blood bank authority ready a record. According to the record, which factored within the the length between February and March (1-16th), 2530 devices of blood and blood parts needed to be discarded. Of these, some devices had contaminated blood.
But 1563 devices had crossed the expiry date for utilization. More, a minimum of 380 devices of plasma have additionally long past previous their usefulness. Usually, the surplus plasma devices are bought to a private company, which makes albumin from it. For this, they pay Rs 1900 to the federal government for 4 devices. But on this case, it was now not adopted.
Head of Manicktala Blood Bank Kumaresh Halder, whilst accepting that an incident of this magnitude has taken place, argues that many blood donation camps are organised in iciness. Thus the blood inventory will increase in banks. On the opposite, "the demand for blood is less". This has ended in surplus of devices available. When asked why patient parties have to go back empty passed, his curt reply was, "may be the blood groups that they came for were not present at that time". When countered, he ended the conversation pronouncing that "we have sent our report to the state health department". Ei Samay tried to contact well being secretary Anil Verma, but he didn't reply to its calls or text messages.
People associated with blood revolution and many govt doctors are of the opinion that this has took place, since the blood banks have a normal tendency to hoard blood devices for VIP patients, referral circumstances and intensely vital patients. Apart from these, questions had been raised on the work culture at the Central Blood Bank. Being a part of emergency products and services, it will have to stay open and be operating 24x7. But the degraded work culture has brought down the smooth operating hours to 14-15 hours consistent with day, they add.
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KOLKATA: West Bengal's greatest blood bank Maniktala Central Blood Bank is within the eye of a typhoon. It has been disclosed that previously six weeks, greater than 1500 devices of blood were thrown away. All these devices were way past expiry dates, with the incident creating a stir.
With people returning empty passed from blood banks even at times of dire need, the infuriated lot began raising difficult questions.
On March 19, the blood bank authority ready a record. According to the record, which factored within the the length between February and March (1-16th), 2530 devices of blood and blood parts needed to be discarded. Of these, some devices had contaminated blood.
But 1563 devices had crossed the expiry date for utilization. More, a minimum of 380 devices of plasma have additionally long past previous their usefulness. Usually, the surplus plasma devices are bought to a private company, which makes albumin from it. For this, they pay Rs 1900 to the federal government for 4 devices. But on this case, it was now not adopted.
Head of Manicktala Blood Bank Kumaresh Halder, whilst accepting that an incident of this magnitude has taken place, argues that many blood donation camps are organised in iciness. Thus the blood inventory will increase in banks. On the opposite, "the demand for blood is less". This has ended in surplus of devices available. When asked why patient parties have to go back empty passed, his curt reply was, "may be the blood groups that they came for were not present at that time". When countered, he ended the conversation pronouncing that "we have sent our report to the state health department". Ei Samay tried to contact well being secretary Anil Verma, but he didn't reply to its calls or text messages.
People associated with blood revolution and many govt doctors are of the opinion that this has took place, since the blood banks have a normal tendency to hoard blood devices for VIP patients, referral circumstances and intensely vital patients. Apart from these, questions had been raised on the work culture at the Central Blood Bank. Being a part of emergency products and services, it will have to stay open and be operating 24x7. But the degraded work culture has brought down the smooth operating hours to 14-15 hours consistent with day, they add.
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