The probe panel also found that Fortis Hospital charged exorbitant prices for the blood.
The Haryana government on Saturday suspended blood bank and pharmacy licences issued to Fortis hospital , Gurugram after serious lapses were found in a probe ordered by health department.
Officials said Fortis Hospital sold fresh frozen plasma to Reliance medical Limited without any permission which was illegal.
As many as 32 shortcomings were found by the Food and Drug Administration department in the blood bank and in-patient department (IPD) during a probe ordered by the Haryana government.
VIOLATIONS UNEARTHED
The probe panel also found that Fortis Hospital charged exorbitant prices for the blood.
The panel did not find any display board giving information about blood prices.
No insectocutor was found and the door was also found without any curtain.
The door of the HIV testing lab opened in the serology lab was also found open.
'LICENCES TO REMAIN SUSPENDED'
"The licences of Pharmacy and blood bank will remain suspended till Fortis Hospital removes all shortcomings and follows the procedure. The hospital had given an undertaking that it will follow the norms of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) while providing whole human blood and blood components to the patients but it was found violating the norms and overcharged the patients," State Drug Controller Narendra Ahuja Vivek said.
Fortis Hospital has been accused of footing a Rs 16 lakh medical bill to a dengue patient's family who died in September this year.
The Haryana government on Saturday suspended blood bank and pharmacy licences issued to Fortis hospital , Gurugram after serious lapses were found in a probe ordered by health department.
Officials said Fortis Hospital sold fresh frozen plasma to Reliance medical Limited without any permission which was illegal.
As many as 32 shortcomings were found by the Food and Drug Administration department in the blood bank and in-patient department (IPD) during a probe ordered by the Haryana government.
VIOLATIONS UNEARTHED
The probe panel also found that Fortis Hospital charged exorbitant prices for the blood.
The panel did not find any display board giving information about blood prices.
No insectocutor was found and the door was also found without any curtain.
The door of the HIV testing lab opened in the serology lab was also found open.
'LICENCES TO REMAIN SUSPENDED'
"The licences of Pharmacy and blood bank will remain suspended till Fortis Hospital removes all shortcomings and follows the procedure. The hospital had given an undertaking that it will follow the norms of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) while providing whole human blood and blood components to the patients but it was found violating the norms and overcharged the patients," State Drug Controller Narendra Ahuja Vivek said.
Fortis Hospital has been accused of footing a Rs 16 lakh medical bill to a dengue patient's family who died in September this year.
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