Four more children suffering from thalassemia were detected HIV-positive in Jharkhand's Chaibasa town on Saturday (October 25, 2025) during an investigation by a five-member medical team from Ranchi, taking the total number of affected minors to five.
The development comes a day after the family of a seven-year-old thalassemia patient alleged that the local blood bank in Chaibasa had transfused HIV-infected blood.
Soon after, the State government formed a medical team to find out how the child received contaminated blood.
Around 25 units of blood has been transfused since the child started visiting the blood bank, officials said.
District Civil Surgeon Dr Sushanto Majhee, however, said the child had tested HIV-positive over a week ago.
