A 25-year-old woman died after blood of the wrong group was administered allegedly to her at a hospital in Odisha’s Sundargarh district. A resident of Budakata village in Kutra block, Sarojini Kaku was admitted to the Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) on Thursday afternoon.
According to an official the patient was suffering from sickle cell anemia and she was under blood transfusion. The woman was administered with wrong blood, due to which she died alleged family members “Her blood group is O positive, but she was given B positive,” a relative told reporters.
Kutra police station inspector BK Bihari said a case was registered and the body conserved for further examination. The RGH has instituted an inquiry committee to look into the issue and guaranteed that action will be taken if anyone was found guilty.
However, any chances of negligence was denied RGH superintendent Jagdishchandra. Behera said blood is administered only after cross-matching — a test done before transfusion to check whether the donor’s blood is compatible with the recipient’s blood.
“Had it been a case of the wrong blood group, then the patient would have died within 10-15 minutes,” he added