Bhubaneswar, Dec 15: Initiating action into the death case of a woman due to alleged transfusion of blood from the wrong blood group in Keonjhar yesterday at the district headquarters hospital, today the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has directed the district collector and health secretary Pramod Kumar Meherda to submit report regarding the same within four weeks. The OHRC has also given orders to the collector to carry out a probe into the mishap.
Sukanti Nayak belonging to the Old Bazar area here had been admitted to the medicine ward of the hospital on Tuesday. However, the doctors referred to shift her to Cuttack for better treatment and so all arrangements were made to shift her on Wednesday. Meanwhile, doctors advised her for a unit of blood. But the hospital staff on duty allegedly transfused blood of the wrong blood group thus leading to her death as said by the relatives. The patient was of blood group ‘O’ but she was given blood of blood group ‘A’. This was alleged by Sricharan Nayak, a relative of the patient. Another relative has demanded of compensation or else the corpse would not be taken for the funeral.
The hospital authorities has admitted the blunder committed by the hospital staff as there was a miscommunication at the blood bank which led to this unfortunate incident. This was said by CDMO Kabindra Sahoo said. He elaborated that two requisitions in the same name, one from Gynaecology and another from Medicine ward, had come to the blood bank. When the technicians processed the requisition for the gynaecology ward patient, the attendants were not present there at the time. So, the kin of Nayak, received the blood, actually meant for the Gynaecology patient. He added that the sister on duty should have examined the group before transfusion.
The CDMO, Kabindra Prasad Sahoo suspended two hospital staff of the district headquarters hospital, one being Laboratory Technician Bharti Mohanty and the other being Staff Nurse Hemalata Mahanta. The hospital authorities have also asked the Health Department to initiate required action against a particular doctor.
