Media carried reports on the 11th of July, 2010, alleging that three child patients of Thalessemia became more sick with symptoms of HIV and seventeen with Hepatitis-C following transfusion of infected blood in the Ummed Hospital at Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Allegedly, the State Government did not provide facilities for the Neut test, which is necessary to identify abnormal Neutrophil count that would have helped detect the infection. It was also alleged that a number of Thalessemia patients in the State had been victims of infected blood transfusion in the past as well.
Taking suo motu cognizance of the media report, the Commission on the 19th July, 2010, observed that the contents of media report, if true, raise serious issue of violation of human rights of the child patients, and issued a notice to the Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan, Jaipur, calling for a report in the matter.