Units of blood alleged to be infected with HIV and Syphilis at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has been tested as it turned out negative.
The Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay and Rapid Plasma Reagin tests were conducted on the blood samples in the presence of police, officials of the National AIDS Control Programme and a man who alleged his mother was issued with the supposed blood infected with HIV and Syphilis.
However, staff of the blood bank particularly could heave a sigh of relief when the sample tests came out negative of HIV and Syphilis, the reporter added.
Background
This test is as a result of one Addo-Kwabla who in a Facebook post had accused KATH of selling two units of blood to his mum who was receiving treatment at a private clinic in Kumasi and the blood tested positive for HIV and Syphilis.
The allegation, according to Addo-Kwabla was based on an initial screening of the blood units by the said private medical centre in Kumasi.
He alleged that the two different blood bags from the hospital tested positive for HIV and Syphilis, at a time his mother was set to be issued the blood.
He said his mother had been sick for some months and the family had sought treatment at a private facility in Kumasi called the Kean Health Centre.
Ahead of one of his mother’s appointments at the health centre, she was asked to bring along some blood.
When the blood was brought along on the day of the appointment, “they took the blood and said they were doing tests. We sat waiting and later a lady came and told us the blood we had was contaminated; both of them. One had HIV and other had Syphilis,†Adolf Addo recounted in a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM.
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