Thiruvananthapuram: The expert panel headed by joint DME has given a clean chit to the Regional Cancer Center at Thiruvananthapuram after an incident in which a nine-years-old girl received HIV infected blood allegedly during blood transfusion at the RCC.
Giving a clean chit to the RCC, the panel said that all 49 donors who had donated blood which was transfused to the girl, had undergone the mandatory screening conducted as per NACO guidelines.
However, the panel also pointed that the RCC is not appropriately equipped so as to detect HIV during the window period, ie the time frame from injection to a positive result. Earlier. the child rights commission had also filed a complaint against the Regional Cancer Center and also demanded an action against those who are responsible.
