HIV +ve woman lodges plaint against KMCH

CHENNAI: A lady from Mangadu on Saturday lodged a grievance at the town police commissionerate in opposition to the personnel of Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital personnel for allegedly transfusing HIV-infected blood to her.

On Friday, the woman met media persons and claimed that she learnt she was once pregnant in December 2017. She was once to start with getting remedy at a primary health centre in Mangadu and therefore, were given blood exams, together with that for HIV, performed at a personal clinic and the results confirmed that she was once HIV destructive. Her haemoglobin rely, on the other hand, was once found to be low and he or she was once referred via the PHC to undergo blood transfusion at KMCH, she mentioned. The woman underwent remedy at the clinic for round ten days and was once discharged once haemoglobin levels improved.


A couple of months later, she went for take a look at up at KMCH and was once found to be HIV sure, she mentioned. The woman has alleged that she were given the HIV an infection after undergoing blood transfusion at KMCH and has accused the clinic’s negligence for her plight.


The woman and her husband are vegetable distributors. The couple levelled allegations in opposition to the personnel at the KMCH. “We are positive that we shrunk the virus from the clinic, since we have effects from an earlier check that display my spouse didn’t have the an infection,” the woman’s husband mentioned.


When we puzzled KMCH personnel after she tested sure post transfusion, they instructed there was once now not much that could be performed now since she has shrunk the an infection. They argued that they weren't answerable for her condition. Some of the personnel members even instructed us that we gained’t have the ability to combat the case in court docket since we didn't have the monetary backing to do so,” he added.


The woman who gave beginning to a boy on September 15, mentioned she was once administered two gadgets of blood at KMCH in April. The KMCH government mentioned there gave the impression to have been some irregularities with the initial HIV screening performed at private labs. They refused to invest how the woman may have shrunk the virus, however insisted that it didn't happen at KMCH. Director of clinical schooling Dr A Edwin Joe on Friday mentioned the blood samples administered to the woman tested secure.
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