PIL in Madras high court seeks removal of TN AIDS control society staff who don’t have proper qualification
Srikkanth D | TNN | Jan 4, 2019, 13:59 IST
MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has sought the response of the state government to a petition seeking an interim direction to authorities to remove those without proper qualification in the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TNSACS) programme.
The PIL was filed by Madurai-based advocate S Muthukumar in the wake of the transfusion of HIV positive blood to a 23-year-old pregnant woman in a government hospital in Virudhunagar district on December 3. A teenage donor had donated the blood without realising that he was HIV infected, and the blood bank staff in Sivakasi had failed to screen the blood properly.
The petitioner stated that past and present directors of TNSACS had employed people without requisite educational qualifications for certain posts such as counsellors in Anti Retro Viral Treatment (ART) centres, blood bank staff and lab technicians as per National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) guidelines. They are working in various government hospitals across the state, according to the petitioner.
The PIL was filed by Madurai-based advocate S Muthukumar in the wake of the transfusion of HIV positive blood to a 23-year-old pregnant woman in a government hospital in Virudhunagar district on December 3. A teenage donor had donated the blood without realising that he was HIV infected, and the blood bank staff in Sivakasi had failed to screen the blood properly.
The petitioner stated that past and present directors of TNSACS had employed people without requisite educational qualifications for certain posts such as counsellors in Anti Retro Viral Treatment (ART) centres, blood bank staff and lab technicians as per National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) guidelines. They are working in various government hospitals across the state, according to the petitioner.
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