India faces contaminated blood scandal
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
India's Food and Drug Administration is investigating what threatens to be its biggest blood scandal since the introduction of compulsory HIV screening in 1989. The agency has withdrawn the licence of the Red Cross blood bank in Bombay following a complaint that it supplied several hospitals with HIV-contaminated blood between February 1992 and July 1994. ELISA equipment at the Bombay facility was out of action for at least 18 months, reports the BMJ.