Responsibility of blood bank regarding referral of initial seroreactive blood donors to integrated counseling and testing center: Sensationalism by the media may lead to disaster

Abstract

A case from a hospital-based private blood bank situated in an urban area of eastern India regarding a horrible media trial after referring a blood donor to integrated counseling and testing center due to seroreactivity as per the National AIDS Control Organization guideline.

Keywords

• Integrated counseling and testing center
• media-trial
• National AIDS Control Organization
• referral
• seroreactive donor