The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) to explain why they have suppressed the findings of the World Bank that poor quality HIV kits were used in India
A two judge bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and S Murlidhar also asked NACO that why they made false claim that the US Center for Disease Control has verified that HIV kits used during the second national AIDS control project (NACP-II) in Indian hospitals and blood banks were of standard quality.
The court issued notices after hearing a public interest litigation filed by Dr. Kunal Saha seeking a CBI investigation of the defective HIV kits used potentially endangering transmission of the deadly AIDS virus to innocent patients through contaminated blood transfusion.
According to Dr. Saha, he was a member of the World Bank team that investigated complaints of spurious HIV kits in India in 2007. He has sought equitable justice for all victims who were infected with the AIDS virus as a result of flawed HIV kits manufactured by Monozyme India Ltd, one of the principal manufacturers of the spurious HIV kits.
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