Via PTI
PRAYAGRAJ: Ten individuals of a gang allegedly promoting pretend platelets to sufferers had been arrested right here on Friday, police stated.
Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey stated the accused used to take plasma from other blood banks after which put it in pouches and promote the plasma as platelet.
The arrests had been made following a tip-off, he stated, including some pretend platelet pouches had been seized from the ownership of the accused.
Pandey additionally stated 12 individuals had been arrested a couple of days in the past for allegedly supplying blood in an unlawful way.
When requested a couple of case touching on the sealing of a personal sanatorium on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice as a substitute of blood platelets to a dengue affected person who later died, he stated, “Right through the process interrogation, it has no longer been showed whether or not it was once a fruit juice within the pouch or one thing else.”
“Those other folks promote plasma as platelets. A pattern is being despatched to a laboratory and a right kind image will emerge simplest after an exam,” the SP stated.
A personal sanatorium in Prayagraj was once sealed on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice as a substitute of blood platelets to a dengue affected person who later died, police had stated.
After a video of the alleged incident went viral, the district management swung into motion and at the path of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Leader Minister Brajesh Pathak sealed the sanatorium.
The affected person, Pradeep Pandey, was once shifted to some other sanatorium the place he died after his situation deteriorated, officers had stated.
Then again, no FIR has been registered on the native police station in reference to the case.
The landlord of the non-public sanatorium had claimed that the platelets had been introduced from a distinct scientific facility and the affected person advanced a response after 3 gadgets had been transfused to him.
PRAYAGRAJ: Ten individuals of a gang allegedly promoting pretend platelets to sufferers had been arrested right here on Friday, police stated.
Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey stated the accused used to take plasma from other blood banks after which put it in pouches and promote the plasma as platelet.
The arrests had been made following a tip-off, he stated, including some pretend platelet pouches had been seized from the ownership of the accused.
Pandey additionally stated 12 individuals had been arrested a couple of days in the past for allegedly supplying blood in an unlawful way.
When requested a couple of case touching on the sealing of a personal sanatorium on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice as a substitute of blood platelets to a dengue affected person who later died, he stated, “Right through the process interrogation, it has no longer been showed whether or not it was once a fruit juice within the pouch or one thing else.”
“Those other folks promote plasma as platelets. A pattern is being despatched to a laboratory and a right kind image will emerge simplest after an exam,” the SP stated.
A personal sanatorium in Prayagraj was once sealed on Thursday for allegedly transfusing fruit juice as a substitute of blood platelets to a dengue affected person who later died, police had stated.
After a video of the alleged incident went viral, the district management swung into motion and at the path of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Leader Minister Brajesh Pathak sealed the sanatorium.
The affected person, Pradeep Pandey, was once shifted to some other sanatorium the place he died after his situation deteriorated, officers had stated.
Then again, no FIR has been registered on the native police station in reference to the case.
The landlord of the non-public sanatorium had claimed that the platelets had been introduced from a distinct scientific facility and the affected person advanced a response after 3 gadgets had been transfused to him.