Two Gurugram doctors booked for selling blood

Haryana Police have booked two doctors of a blood centre for allegedly transporting and selling blood illegally to other banks in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for the past two years, officials said on Saturday.

A team of drugs control officers raided a blood centre, which was operational from a private hospital in Gurugram’s Sector 56 on Friday and found out various irregularities there, following which the centre was sealed and a case was registered against its executive director and medical officer, said the officials.

The police said that no arrests have been made so far.

Haryana health minister Anil Vij on Saturday said, “It has been found out during preliminary investigation that 6,015 blood units were collected at 176 outdoor blood donation camps organised by the centre without a permission from the health department in the past two years. Even the technical staff deployed at those camps lacked required qualifications.”

According to the police, they had received a complaint from a senior drugs control officer.

A senior official of department of food and drug administration (FDA) said there should be full-time deployment of medical officials at the blood centres and blood should be taken from the donor in their presence.

But the medical officer here was found to be working as a pathologist at some other diagnostics laboratory in Sushant Lok.

Vij said the blood donated in the camps organised by Lions Blood Centre in Gurugram was sold in remote areas of Uttar Pradesh and cities of Punjab.