Overview
- Justice Gautam Kumar Chaudhary directed police to register the case forthwith and to provide a copy of the FIR to the complainants and the court.
- The court has taken up the matter as a Public Interest Litigation after reports that five thalassemia patients aged 5 to 7 tested HIV-positive following transfusions in October.
- Petitioners represented by advocate Md Shadab Ansari are seeking a court-monitored probe and criminal action for alleged negligence at the hospital’s blood bank.
- A high-level team inspected the facility following the court’s intervention and, according to reports, flagged irregular testing protocols, weak supervision and procedural lapses.
- The state announced Rs 2 lakh ex gratia per affected child, a sum families argue is inadequate given the long-term medical and social costs.