Four more children suffering from thalassemia were detected HIV-positive in the Chaibasa town of Jharkhand on Saturday during an investigation by a five-member medical team from Ranchi, taking the total number of affected minors to five.

The development came a day after the family of a seven-year-old thalassemia patient alleged that the local blood bank in Chaibasa had transfused HIV-infected blood, news agency PTI reported.

Probe on

Soon after, the Jharkhand government formed a medical team to find out how the child received contaminated blood. Around 25 units of blood were transfused since the child started visiting the blood bank, officials were quoted as saying.

The five-member team led by Director (Health services), Jharkhand, Dr. Dinesh Kumar, inspected the blood bank in Sadar

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