High Court notice to NACO for suppressing report on faulty HIV kits

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High Court notice to NACO for suppressing report on faulty HIV kits

Court pulls up AIDS control agency for faulty HIV kits

New Delhi, Aug 27 : The Delhi High Court Wednesday came down heavily

on the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) for suppressing a

World Bank report on faulty HIV kits being used in India.

The court issued a notice to NACO asking it to explain by Oct 22 as

to why it suppressed the World Bank findings that poor quality HIV

kits were being used in India.

Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Murlidhar asked NACO

why it had made false claims that the US Centre for Disease Control

had verified that the HIV kits used during the second national AIDS

control project (NACP-II) in Indian hospitals and blood banks were of

standard quality.

The court was hearing a public interest petition filed by Kunal Shah,

seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation into

the use of defective HIV kits.

Shah said 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.

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/a/in-1890.htm