|
Illegal blood bank busted in city: 2 held
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two people yesterday from Barobagh area of Mirpur in the city on charge of preserving and selling blood illegally to different city clinics and hospitals. The arrestees are Mijanur Rahman Milon, owner of a blood bank and his brother-in-law and partner of his illegal business, Mohammad Sujan. "Doctor Bob! Doctor Bob! We're running out of blood!" "Here's a twenty! Run down to Mijanur Rahman Milon's and pick up another bucket! And make sure it's fresh!" Acting on a tip off, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-1 jointly led by Maj Saiful Islam Chowdhury and Executive Magistrate AHM Anwar Pasha of Rab conducted a drive at the blood bank Sandhan Blood Bank and Pathology at around 11.00am. Rab seized four bags of blood from their possessions and slapped a fine of Tk 2 lakh for each and in default of which they will have to serve three months in jail. They were sent to jail as they failed to pay the amount of fine, Rab sources said. Maj Saiful Islam Chowdhury told The Daily Star, Milon would collect blood for Tk 80 per bag from professional blood sellers especially from drug addicts without proper diagnostic tests and sold per bag at Tk 800. He also said neither they had any legal documents essential to run such blood bank nor any proper arrangement to preserve the blood as they kept them in the refrigerators of the nearby departmental stores. Posted by: Fred 2009-01-15 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=259919 |