SC On Examining The Blood Donor Guidelines Of Centre

SC On Examining The Blood Donor Guidelines Of Centre 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

The Supreme Court on 5th March 2021, looked for reaction from the Centre on a supplication testing the Union Health Ministry's Blood Donor Guidelines of 2017 that forbid transfusion of blood from transsexual people, gay men and sex laborers, categorising them as high danger group for HIV/AIDS disease. 

Giving the notification to the Center, CJI Sharad Bobde, heading a seat likewise containing Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, said the court is certifiably not a specialist on logical issue to respond forthwith to the issue, when PIL applicant Thangjam Santa Singh's attorney Jayna Kothari looked for a stay on the rules. 

FURTHER DETAILS 

The PIL says that during the Covid pandemic, numerous individuals from the transsexual local area who required blood couldn't get it from their trans family members or friends and family, because of the rules. 

The Guidelines on Blood Donor Selection and Blood Donor Referral, 2017, in its rules 12 and 51, restricts transsexual people, men engaging in sexual relations with men, and female sex laborers from giving blood. 

The PIL says this bar on giving blood is "discretionary preposterous, and unfair and furthermore informal." 

It says that "truth be told all blood units that are gathered from benefactors are tried for irresistible infections, including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. 

Consequently, for all time barring them from giving blood and arranging them as high danger just based on their sex character and sexual direction is violative of their entitlement to be dealt with similarly as other blood givers." 

Fighting that any prohibition of the blood benefactors ought to be founded on real and not saw hazard, and ought not be founded on characters, the PIL says that the rules under challenge are infringing upon the settled situation of law that segregation can't be made based on sex personality and sexual direction.

NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION COUNCIL OF INDIA 

National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC), NACO, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India is mandated to promote voluntary blood donation to make blood accessible and available through well-coordinated Blood Transfusion Services in our country.

NBTC has related with Federation of Blood Donors Organization (FIBDO), West Bengal for directing BLODCON 2017 - National Workshop and Conference for Blood Donor Motivation Organizations at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab from tenth to twelfth November 2017.

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