In a shocking instance of suspected medical negligence, as many as five thalassemia children of Jharkhand's Chaibasa town have been tested HIV-positive, following which serious questions were raised about safety procedures at a local blood bank, PTI reported.

The scandal broke out when the family of a seven-year-old child complained they were transfused with HIV-infected blood by the local blood bank. After this preliminary report, a medical probe team was set up, which later found four other thalassemia children with HIV in the same town.

Initial Case Triggers Wider Investigation

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The initial child to be found with HIV had allegedly received around 25 units of blood transfusions since she initiated treatment at the blood bank. The child initially test

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