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New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Blood samples give growing signs of hepatitis in Barisal
Our Correspondent . Barisal
Presence of viruses of diseases like hepatitis and syphilis in blood
collected for transfusion at the Sher-e-Bangla Medical College
Hospital, Barisal in 2007 was almost double than that of 2006, sources
in hospital=92s blood transfusion centre said.
One hundred and thirty-two bags of blood out of 12,995 screened at
the hospital in 2007 were infected with viruses of diseases like
hepatitis B and C and syphilis, they said.
The number of virus-infected blood bags at the hospital was 65 in
2006 when a total of 9,616 bags of bloods were screened, the sources
said, adding that of the 65 bags, presence of HIV was found in two
bags, hepatitis B virus in 52 bas, syphilis in 10 bags and presence of
malaria was found in one bag.
Although no HIV was detected in 2007, a massive rise of hepatitis
was found in 2007, the sources said adding that of the 132 virus-
infected bags, 118 were hepatitis B infected, two infected with
hepatitis C and 12 with syphilis virus.
Of them, 84 bags of blood found infected with hepatitis B, two with
hepatitis C and 10 with syphilis viruses were detected in blood
donated by the relatives and friends of the patients while 30 bags
infected with hepatitis B virus were collected by blood banks and four
bags infected with hepatitis B and two bags with syphilis virus were
detected in blood collected from professional sellers, the sources
said.
According to teh sources, out of 12,995 bags of blood screened in
2007, 4,494 bags were collected by different blood banks and 7,546
bags were donated of the relatives and friends of the patients and 955
bags were purchased from the professional blood sellers.
Brindabon Biswas, associate professor in-charge of the SBMCH blood
transfusion centre, and Md Fazlul Bashar, associate professor of
pathology department of SBMCH, said the increasing rate of viral
infection in blood poses risks of spread of the diseases if safe blood
transfusion was not ensured.
There are 98 centres in the country under the safe blood
transfusion project and 10,29,459 bags of bloods were screened in the
centres from 2001 to 2006, they said adding that 71 of the bags were
found infected with HIV, and 9,750 with hepatitis B, 1,317 with
hepatitis C, 1,346 with syphilis and 91 with malaria viruses.
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