Fake platelet case
10 arrested for selling blood plasma as platelets in UP's Prayagraj amid rising dengue cases
Praygraj/IBNS: A group of 10 men have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj for allegedly selling blood plasma as platelets to families of dengue patients, media reports said.
The arrests come in the backdrop of a different case in the city in which a hospital was allegedly passing off sweet lime juice as platelets to a dengue patient who later died.
It has not been proved if indeed there was juice in the packets as a report is awaited in connection with the "juice" theory and the same is just talk on social media, police said.
According to the police, these 10 men were taking plasma from blood banks and repackaging them as platelets.
Both Plasma and platelets both are components of blood but are used to treat different ailments, with platelets being high in demand in dengue cases.
"We questioned these men about gangs in Prayagraj possibly passing off juice as platelets, but they said that wasn't happening — rather, blood plasma is being passed off as platelets," district police chief, Shailesh Pandey, told the media.
The arrests were made on a tip-off and plasma pouches were seized, besides some cash, mobile phones and vehicles, the police said.
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