Madhya Pradesh News | 5 Children Get HIV In Madhya Pradesh From Donated Blood, 2 Doctors Suspended

What began as routine, life-saving treatment for five children suffering from thalassemia has turned into one of the gravest public health failures Madhya Pradesh has witnessed in recent years. An NDTV investigation has established that these children were administered HIV-infected blood during transfusions at government facilities in Satna -- an incident that not only raises questions of negligence but points to a deeper, systemic collapse of blood safety, surveillance, and accountability. NDTV has learnt that the affected children, all dependent on regular transfusions to survive, were given a total of 189 units of blood, sourced from three different blood banks. In the process, they were exposed to blood from over 150 donors, significantly widening the window of risk. The district-level inquiry has now concluded that HIV reached the children through donor blood, confirming a catastrophic breach in screening protocols meant to be infallible. #MadhyaPradesh #HIVCase #BloodTransfusion #PublicHealthCrisis #Thalassemia #BloodSafety #MedicalNegligence #Satna #NDTVDigitalOriginals