Sunita Mishra, a21-year-old student from Ahmedabad, met with a
car accident in 2012 on her wayto grandparents' home in Vadodara. She was
admitted to a private hospital in acritical condition. She was discharged a few
days later. However, every month,her parents have to go to civil hospital to
collect her medicines. Reason: Sunita had been infected with HIV after
being administered tainted blood during treatment.
While Gujarat is peddling
med ical tourism to the world, as many as 2,500 people in the state have contracted
HIV through blood transfusion in six years. In reply to an application filed
under the Right to Information Act, the Union ministry of health and welfare
revealed that the state stood highest with 271 cases of HIV infections caused
by blood transfusion. The shocker is that Gujarat has continuously recorded the
highest number of cases in past six years. Experts attribute infections to
medical negligence and rampant malpractice among blood banks.
