ARMY FAULTED FOR SLOPPY WORK IN BLOOD-TYPE TESTS

Sloppy blood collection and identification by Afghanistan’s army may have led to the deaths of wounded Afghan soldiers who received the wrong blood type, a US watchdog said. Its report also questioned whether blood was being properly tested for disease. Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry rejected the report. Spokesman Dawlat Waziri said on Friday that blood is tested at the hospital before being given to wounded soldiers, adding that the ministry had no record of soldiers dying because of wrong blood type. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in its report late Thursday that about 15,400 Afghan soldiers did not have their blood type tested before entering the army.