Lucknow, Oct. 27 -- An altercation among a group of people allegedly brought to donate blood in exchange for money outside the blood bank of Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in Lucknow on October 24 prompted the institute's security personnel to intervene and inform the police. According to SGPGIMS sources, the group members had allegedly come to donate blood for monetary consideration and got into an argument over payment. SGPGIMS said its patrolling guards noticed the quarrel and alerted the security officer, who reached the spot with a security team and police personnel. Those involved were detained and taken to the police post in the institute's old outpatient department (OPD). The institute said the incident highlighted attempts to circumvent the voluntary blood donation system. The department of transfusion medicine reiterated that blood donation must be entirely voluntary and that accepting money in exchange for it was unacceptable. Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences director Prof Radha Krishna Dhiman said the institute was committed to providing safe and quality blood components to patients in accordance with national rules and guidelines....