Dr. Dharmakanta Kumbhakar
drkdharmakanta@yahoo.com)
In May 2016, it was reported that a three and-a-half-year-old boy, who was being treated for burn injuries, acquired HIV infection from blood transfusion at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital. In June 2013, four people tested Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) positive after an alleged blood transfusion at the Mangaldai Civil Hospital. In 2012, a thalassaemic child receiving blood transfusion in a hospital in Mananthavady, Kerala was found HIV positive. In 2011, the media reported that 28 thalassaemic children who received blood transfusion at the Junagarh Civil Hospital were found to be HIV positive. In 2010, one patient acquired HIV infection following blood transfusion at the Indian Red Cross Society blood bank, Andhra Pradesh. These are only a few examples of transfusion-transmitted HIV infection in India. Actually, HIV infection resulting from blood transfusion has been documented nationwide repeatedly.