Chaibasa (Jharkhand), Oct 25 (PTI) A five-member team from Ranchi on Saturday visited Chaibasa, the headquarters of Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, to investigate allegations that HIV-infected blood was transfused to a seven-year-old thalassemia patient by the local blood bank, a senior health official said.

The victim was tested HIV-positive over a week ago, District Civil Surgeon Dr. Sushanto Majhee told PTI.

Majhee said the government-constituted probe team visited Sadar Hospital and the blood bank in Chaibasa as part of their investigations.

Majhee, however, did not divulge details as probe was still underway.

He also did not elaborate who headed the probe team.

The matter came to light on Friday after the child’s family blamed the blood bank for tranfussion of contaminated b

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