Another family tried to ransack a medical shop
SRINAGAR: Family members of a woman who has fallen critically ill after being given blood of wrong group have staged a protest in Kashmir capital Srinagar.
Jana Begum was supplied with O+ blood while her actual blood group is A+.
Her son said the blood group test conducted by Medicare Diagnostic Centre was wrong and misled doctors.
“The doctors in SMHS Hospital accordingly supplied her this group of blood (O+) but she developed shivering and her condition went from bad to worse,” he said.
He has demanding stern action against the owners of the Diagnostic Centre.
The Medicare Diagnostic Image Centre admitted the blunder.
It said it was a mistake on part of a lab technician and “we apologize to the family of the patient.” It is not clear if the facility plans to bear medical expenses of the patient.
Meanwhile, family members of another woman tried to ransack a medical shop in Nawakadal Srinagar after the owner of the shop allegedly injected her with an expired vaccine (Karogon HP-500). into the body of a lady.
“I was restless after my wife developed shivering and I was shocked after finding out that she had been given expired injection,” Imtiyaz Ahmed said, adding that stern action should be taken against those medical shops who keep expired drugs in their stores.
