Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested a gang of five for allegedly supplying blood illegally to patients in top hospitals of Delhi for the last five years.
This gang allegedly arranges professional donors and pays them Rs 2000 per patient.
“We are still investigating this case and trying to find out more about them but we do know that they were arrested in an organ scam sometime back,” says Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadwal.
While hospital authorities at AIIMS and Safdarjung deny having any knowledge about the gang, experts say the acute shortage of blood in the country makes professional donors and middlemen popular among the needy ones.
“India’s annual requirement of blood is around 9 million units but the collection amounts to a mere 6 million units. The percentage of voluntary blood donation is just 60 per cent as against the estimated 100 per cent,” says Director of Department of Transfusion, Apollo Hospital, Dr R N Makroo.
Apart from the shortage, experts believe it is the lack of a clear law for prosecuting such crimes which provides fertile ground for a blood donation racket to flourish.
“Lot of times when these people bring donors along with them, it is very difficult to verify whether it is a relative, a friend or some other person,” says Blood Transfusion Officer, AIIMS, Dr Poonam Coshic.
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