Lucknow, Nov. 5 -- To ensure that patients receive safe blood and blood components, the Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) in has tightened the noose around charitable blood centres.
During the special inspection campaign being run across the state, large-scale irregularities have come to light at blood centres. Following surprise inspections that revealed numerous deficiencies, operations at 10 more charitable blood centres have been halted with immediate effect. With this, the number of centres brought under action has risen to 24.
Under the campaign, 158 blood centres in 62 districts have been inspected so far. In the inspections, action was taken in some cases for issuing blood without mandatory infection testing...