Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I suspect that the most recent case in India where 2,234 persons were infected with HIV might have preferred a cool and healthy craft beer instead, but thats just my crazy way of thinking.
The "most recent case"? What a strange turn of phrase for 2,234 instances of infection over a period of 17 months spread across a country with 1,252,000,000 people and somewhere in excess of 15,000 hospitals.
To talk about such stats over such a long period and involving so many people and so many institutions as the "most recent case", sounds rather deceptive, robbie. Were you hoping that no one would look at the article?
That anyone should contract HIV from a blood transfusion is, of course, terrible and scandalous. But according to the Times of India, annually, across the country, there are 234,000,000 major operations, 63,000,000 trauma-induced surgeries, 31,000,000 cancer-related procedures and 10,000,000 pregnancy related complications requiring blood transfusions.
How many lives were saved by these blood transfusions? How many of the 2,234 who contracted HIV nevertheless had their lives saved by the transfusion they were given?
Pretending that the 2,234 were a "recent case" rather than, statistically speaking [when you consider the scale of blood use nationwide] them being a far, far less dramatic thing [which is what they were] - tragic as they may have been - and while never, ever conceding that blood transfusions save people's lives - makes you sound like a paid-by-the-sleight-of-hand corporate propagandist rather than someone with a genuine interest in health issues related to blood transfusions. 🙂