MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras prime court on Monday directed that the postmortem of the 19-year-old HIV certain donor whose blood was once transfused to an anaemic woman be carried out on the Madurai Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) in the presence of 2 assistant professors from clinical colleges of neighbouring districts. The bench also directed the dean to be sure that the autopsy was once videographed from quite a lot of angles.
Justice B Pugalendhi, who took up the case at a special sitting, issued the directions after the deceased boy’s mom moved the court on Monday elevating doubts over his dying. The teenager had tried suicide closing Wednesday by way of eating rat poison and was once present process remedy at GRH, the place he died on Sunday. The boy, who was once working as a labourer at a fireworks unit in Sivakasi, had first donated blood on the blood bank on November 30 without realizing that he was once HIV-infected. This blood was once transfused to the 23-year-old pregnant woman on December three and he or she also got infected.
In the petition, the lady stated that her son discontinued faculty in Class IX and went to paintings in Sivakasi in 2016 as a day-to-day salary labourer. She stated her son had to go through a blood test for his task requirement in another country and the lab effects confirmed him to be HIV certain and then he checked with the Sivakasi govt sanatorium and located that his blood was once transfused to a pregnant woman. “In fact my son himself alerted the sanatorium officers about his an infection after the personal lab found him to be infected,” the petitioner stated.
After it was once ascertained that a pregnant woman was once infected with HIV, pictures of my son have been confirmed on some tv channels resulting in his id. Upset over this and loss of counselling, he tried suicide on December 26. The petitioner stated that after 3 days of remedy at Madurai GRH, her son was once again to standard. However, on December 30, round five am, 3 docs and a nurse arrived after he complained of pain in his personal parts. Three hours later, her son was once declared useless.
Stating that even the district collector was once now not informed of the boy’s dying till night time, the family raised suspicions over the remedy presented in the closing hour resulting in his dying. When the petition got here up for hearing, Justice B Pugalendhi granted the relaxation sought by way of the family. The court directed that the autopsy be carried out as according to regulations laid down and directed two assistant professors from either Sivaganga, Tirunelveli or Theni clinical colleges to lend a hand in the autopsy. The court also made it clear that the relaxation granted on this case may just now not be a precedent in instances of suspicious dying and it was once granted considering the special cases.
Justice B Pugalendhi, who took up the case at a special sitting, issued the directions after the deceased boy’s mom moved the court on Monday elevating doubts over his dying. The teenager had tried suicide closing Wednesday by way of eating rat poison and was once present process remedy at GRH, the place he died on Sunday. The boy, who was once working as a labourer at a fireworks unit in Sivakasi, had first donated blood on the blood bank on November 30 without realizing that he was once HIV-infected. This blood was once transfused to the 23-year-old pregnant woman on December three and he or she also got infected.
In the petition, the lady stated that her son discontinued faculty in Class IX and went to paintings in Sivakasi in 2016 as a day-to-day salary labourer. She stated her son had to go through a blood test for his task requirement in another country and the lab effects confirmed him to be HIV certain and then he checked with the Sivakasi govt sanatorium and located that his blood was once transfused to a pregnant woman. “In fact my son himself alerted the sanatorium officers about his an infection after the personal lab found him to be infected,” the petitioner stated.
After it was once ascertained that a pregnant woman was once infected with HIV, pictures of my son have been confirmed on some tv channels resulting in his id. Upset over this and loss of counselling, he tried suicide on December 26. The petitioner stated that after 3 days of remedy at Madurai GRH, her son was once again to standard. However, on December 30, round five am, 3 docs and a nurse arrived after he complained of pain in his personal parts. Three hours later, her son was once declared useless.
Stating that even the district collector was once now not informed of the boy’s dying till night time, the family raised suspicions over the remedy presented in the closing hour resulting in his dying. When the petition got here up for hearing, Justice B Pugalendhi granted the relaxation sought by way of the family. The court directed that the autopsy be carried out as according to regulations laid down and directed two assistant professors from either Sivaganga, Tirunelveli or Theni clinical colleges to lend a hand in the autopsy. The court also made it clear that the relaxation granted on this case may just now not be a precedent in instances of suspicious dying and it was once granted considering the special cases.
HC directs to videograph HIV+ve donor’s autopsy
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