NHRC raps Odisha authorities over delay in compensation 

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has rapped Odisha authorities for allegedly failing to find the victims, who have been transfused with HIV and hepatitis inflected blood at VIMSAR in Burla 4 years in the past, for paying compensation. 

Acting on a petition and subsequent submissions filed by Supreme Court lawyer and rights activist Radhakant Tripathy, the apex human rights physique has directed the Chief Secretary to expedite the method to pay the compensation and submit the proof of cost by February 25.

Source mentioned a 70-year-old particular person from Rairakhol and a 60-year-old man from Brajarajnagar had undergone surgical procedure at VIMSAR on June 13 and 12, 2016 respectively. Both the aged individuals have been transfused blood throughout their surgical procedure. Later, it was discovered that the person from Rairakhol was transfused with HIV contaminated blood and the Brajarajnagar man was transfused with hepatitis contaminated allegedly as a result of negligence of the medical doctors and workers the medical faculty.

Pursuant to the interim course of the NHRC, the then Health Secretary had submitted a report stating {that a} information entry operator and a lab technician concerned in transfusion of blood have been disengaged and the medical officer on obligation and in-charge medical officer of the blood financial institution have been positioned below suspension after a sequence of enquiries.

The rights panel had earlier directed the Chief Secretary to pay Rs 1 lakh every to Siddeswar Pradhan and Jaynarayan Sahu as compensation by October 4, 2020.  Since the Health division knowledgeable the NHRC that cost of compensation couldn’t be disbursed as a result of non-availability of their tackle, the Commission in its order has requested the Collectors of Sambalpur and Jharsuguda to publish a discover in native newspapers in favour of the victims for cost of compensation.