2,234 get HIV via blood transfusion. We didn’t know: Government to Lok Sabha

Tue, 06 September 2016

10:38

As many as 2,234 people contracted HIV after receiving blood transfusions in hospitals between October 2014 and March 2016, according to data released by the National AIDS Control Organisation, but the government told Parliament it did not know of these infections. The information was made available by NACO when it replied to a right-to-information request filed by activist Chetan Kothari in 2016.

“No,” was the reply the ministry of health–NACO’s parent organisation–gave on August 16, 2016, to a question from Congress member of parliament and former minister Jyotiraditya Scindia asking if the government was aware that “a large number” of people nationwide had been infected with HIV while getting blood transfusion.

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