Times of India | Mumbai | TNN | Updated: Sep 27, 2017, 05:44 IST
Mumbai: In a first, a medical officer from the BMC-run Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Municipal General (Shatabdi) Hospital in Kandivli has been asked to explain why hundreds of blood units could not be utilized within their shelf life under his watch between 2009 and 2016.
According to RTI information, the hospital’s blood bank discarded 2,246 units of blood in a span of seven years.
Hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Pradip Angre defended the blood bank in-charge. “The data discrepancy was an error that crept in because two columns were clubbed into one giving wrong statistics for blood expiry. Also, blood wastage is inevitable to some extent as government hospitals have to keep 10-15% units in buffer to tackle any emergency,” he said. Dr Angre said they were in the process of drafting a response to the MMC.
