Setting aside a controversy that a hospital staff member had wrongly transfused HIV-infected blood to a pregnant woman, Kilpauk Medical College (KMC) Dean Vijaya denied that such an incident never happened at the hospital at all.

This controversy has erupted close on the heels of another controversy wherein a pregnant woman in Sathur had been wrong transfused HIV-infected blood. The woman in question broke down while revealing this to newsmen and said that she would have been better off had she been murdered instead of getting transfused the HIV-infected blood into her veins.

Another pregnant woman hailing from Mangadu on the suburbs of Chennai has reportedly made a complaint that she had been injected HIV-positive blood at KMC in Chennai. She had delivered her baby in September after surgery and during the process, she seemed to have been administered HIV-positive blood. The woman’s complaint with Health Department against KMC hasn’t been acted upon, it is said.

“My life has been ruined thanks to the callous attitude of the Blood Bank staff at KMC; I’m not even able to feed my kid,” the woman said and has appealed for justice and compensation as she had been abandoned by her family once they knew she had been infected with HIV virus. Health Minister Vijayabhaskar has reacted to the complaint saying that he had only been briefed about this and assured that he would do everything possible to unearth the truth.

Meanwhile, KMC Dean Vijaya has stated that the Blood Bank staff didn’t inject HIV-blood into the woman’s body.