Uncontrolled blood

1995/10/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Osasuna

In the Indian city of Bengal, a quarter of the population with HIV AIDS virus is a professional donor. Researchers at the Calcutta School of Medicine have reported that the indifference shown by the Indian Health Institutions in this problem can jeopardize the new project being carried out against AIDS and that it can be even more serious, that all blood donations can become uncontrollable.

Several health organizations have reported that in Indian hospitals safety measures are not met and that the blood that reaches it is used without control. In addition, donor health status is not controlled at all, so contaminated blood appears in hospitals everywhere.

Thus, for example, it has been reported on several occasions that the bank managed by the Indian Red Cross sells contaminated blood, even though no evidence has been conducted so far. According to data provided by the team of researchers from Calcutta, half of the blood in Indian banks is able to infect hepatitis B. Although it is known that this is so, they say that the use of blood is uncontrollable.