The Lagos government has closed down a private hospital at Ago-Okota in the Oshodi-Isolo LGA over “unsafe blood transfusion” to patients.
Osikomaiya said the hospital was found to have collected unlabeled and unscreened blood, describing the act as “unprofessional medical practice”. “The law states that no person within Lagos State shall transfuse blood into a patient unless such blood has been screened, tested, labelled by the state blood transfusion committee, and found to be negative for all transmissible diseases including HIV I and II, Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis and any other disease as may be deemed necessary by LSBTS.”
She said the agency is working on strategies to educate health workers on unethical blood transfusion practices,
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