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Last Updated: Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Two-year jail term for illegal blood transfusion in Lagos   By Dan Alo Correspondent, Lagos   Laws prohibiting illegal transfusion of blood to patients in Lagos hospitals have been signed by the state Governor, Bola Tinubu. It prescribes a fine of N200,000 or two years imprisonment for defaulters. The bills which were sent to the State House of Assembly gone for deliberations since the official commissioning of a blood screening and certification centre at the Island Maternity in July, got the official appendage of the state chief executive Tuesday. Part of the provisions of the laws is that “it is criminal to give uncertified and unscreened blood to patients in any hospital in the state; that any wrong administration of blood will carry same penalty as that of murder and the administrator(s) of such blood will be regarded as murderers. It also recommended that stored blood in any of the hospitals operating in the state should be periodically screened at least every six months, and a proper certificate of screening should be obtained before any form of transfusion. “A lot of lives has been lost to wrong administration of blood and it will be irresponsible for any government not to take action on such a serious issue as that affecting the lives of the citizenry. We have put a screening and certification equipment in place, one of the best in Africa, a technology which can rank amogst the best in the world and we expect that medical practitioners take advantage of this to reduce cases of wrong blood administration,” Commissioner for Health, Dr. Leke Pitan said. The laws prohibiting arbitrary administration of blood in the state, Pitan emphasized, will help eliminate cases where quacks just carry out operations, administer blood to patients indiscriminately, and get away with wanton waste of human lives. Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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