Morung Express News
Kohima| March 27
The Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench today asked the State respondents to place instructions as to whether four blood banks, ordered to be installed at the District Hospitals (DHs) of Tuensang, Kiphire, Mon and Phek, have been installed or not and as to whether these Blood Banks has become operational or not.
Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) praying for implementation of the National Blood Policy and the guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in some districts in Nagaland, the Division Bench of Justices Manish Choudhury and Justice Robin Phukan also asked for up-to-date status on Blood Component Separator at Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima (NHAK).
The State respondents are the State Mission Director State Health Society National Rural Health Mission Directorate of Health and Family Welfare; Nagaland State Aids Control Society (NSACS) and Nagaland State Blood Transfusion Centre Kohima.
The PIL was first filed in 2022.
As per the Court’s order on March 27, during the course of deliberation of the PIL, it has come to the notice that the Union Ministry of Development of North East Region [DoNER] accorded Administrative and Financial Sanction [AFS] under the North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme [NESIDS] on July 2, 2020, among others, for setting up Blood Banks at the four DHs.
The total amount sanctioned was Rs. 167.80 lakh or Rs. 48.95 lakh per Blood Bank, it said.
The State respondents, meanwhile, submitted to the Court that after a bidding process, a work order for setting up of the blood banks in the four DHS was issued to the contractor on October 19, 2022.
However, as per the work order, the Court noticed that the supply was to be made within 90 days from the date of issuance of the order, failing which the supply shall be treated as cancelled.
Accordingly, the Court directed the State respondents to place the status reports.
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