23 Indian children get HIV from blood transfusions

dis is really uncivilized those doctors shoudl b hanged till death who all r involved in this infected blood transfusion

dis is really uncivilized those doctors shoul b hanged till death who all r involved in this infected blood transfusion

Is it Mr. Vyas? How can you say that they had HIV earlier? If so, were the parents informed of it during pre-transfusion tests? You were first to open your lid and rule books when Lokayukta was appointed by Guv in Gujarat. Now this is your department, - Go and figure out which rules you will apply - or will you just give our lame excuses...!!! Remember, you are playing politics around small 5 and 10 year old babies!! Same on you and your Boss Modi!!!

India has a really bad pharmaceutical (cottage industry) development. No wonder it extends to hospitals in sorting out blood transfusions. The industry needs to be more careful. Hope they will provide free lifelong health services to the children.

dot or feather??

These people will starve while leading a thousand hamburgers down the street on a leash....and Ghandi drank his own urine!

Equal access to the most appropriate available medicine is but a dream for most of the world ...while $ can't buy or guarantee health, it sure doesn't hurt.
Sick world

The macho idiots who refuse to wear a condom because they believe it reflects on their manhood should be punished when their blood proves out to be infected by HIV. These are mostly poorly educated young to middle aged nitwits who either do not have a regular job or have a job that keeps them away from home for periods of time such as truck drivers. Oh yeah, they bring the gift of the disease home with them. Imagine the rest.

When President, Clinton authorized convicts and prisoners in US to donate blood. Untested blood was then distributed throughout the US and Canada. Check it out, an explosion of AIDS erupted in Canada. Figures never reported in US, probably too damning to politicians. Hemophaelics most affected, but surgery patients always suffered. Even today, I refuse blood, from any source but my own.

Modern medicine is a business. You get the best treatment when you pay the most money. I don't believe that everyone has a "right" to medical care because much of what is offered is not needed or only postpones the inevitable at an obscene monetary and emotional cost. While it may sound cold to hold the position that the poor will never get the same treatment as the rich, it is a fact and one that needs to be recognized. If the argument is that the poor should receive the same treatment as the rich, I ask this: Who pays for it? The doctors/hospitals won't do it for free. And if the industry knows that people will make such extreme sacrifices to pay for their services, what incentive do they have to increase quality? Even in America, for people who have insurance and the ability to pay, there are plenty of Physicians whose arrogance and packed schedule result in the patient having to pay twice and three times as much for care (and spending longer getting healed), and this is theoretically some of the best medicine available. The Docs get paid, even if they don't provide any benefit to the patient; there is little incentive for improving quality because all but the most obvious negligent cases are dismissed as falling under the category of "there are no guarantees in medicine".

A government run hospital...what does that tell you?

This is so sad. They're infected and will probably end up dieing from a different disease than the blood disorder they already suffered from. The most innocent of all to get this disease and no fault of their own.. children. Prayers to those families. I can't imagine.

So, if I follow the logic of some people, God is punishing these children because we are not stoning gay people to death? Not a very Righteous God if that is the case.

I would not touch a Dot-Head Indian even with a stick...they stink now AIDs

how sad

I was thinking the same thing as AJ. The last sentence didnt really need to be added. Because theyre poor it's ok for these officials to give them blood that wasnt tested???

Read that last sentence very carefully.

How's that Gay Rights thing working for you now ?

The world health organizations dirty little secret...India has the fastest growing aids outbreak.

While there are medications that can keep HIV at bay and allow carriers to live mostly normal lives, there is very little chance of these children's families being able to afford them. Now they're far, far worse off than before.

Blood transfusions are little good if you don't check the blood for diseases. Don't try to cut corners when dealing with people's lives.