{"id":11705,"date":"2022-10-26T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11705"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:06:06","slug":"karachi-gang-selling-fake-mega-manual-units-of-platelets-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/karachi-gang-selling-fake-mega-manual-units-of-platelets-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi: Gang selling fake mega, manual units of platelets busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Gang selling fake mega, manual units of platelets busted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/SINDH-Blood-Transfusion-Authority\/100067044530991\/\">Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority<\/a> (SBTA) officials have busted a gang involved in selling fake mega and manual units of platelets to citizens in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged ringleader of a fraudster gang along with his accomplice was arrested in Jinnah Hospital after being caught red-handed by the SBTA officials.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities also secured an audio recording of the fraudsters in which they were discussing the trade of fake mega and manual units.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts said that patients could contract infectious diseases due to the transfusion of fake mega or manual units of platelets.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/man-dies-of-cardiac-arrest-while-watching-pakistan-india-t20-world-cup-match.html\">Man dies of cardiac arrest while watching Pakistan-India T20 World Cup match<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the audio recording, the gang members were promising to provide the mega unit of platelets at the price of 32,000 without demanding any blood donors.<\/p>\n<p>They asked the customer to make an advance payment along with the blood sample and later they will hand over the platelet unit to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>SBTA officials swung into action against the fraudsters\u2019 gang risking the lives of the patients through the illicit sale of fake platelet units. According to SBTA, Pak-Blood Bank was not listed among the registered blood banks.<\/p>\n<p>The representatives of the health department also reached the police station to lodge a case against the accused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Gang selling fake mega, manual units of platelets busted. Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA) officials have busted a gang involved in selling fake mega and manual units of platelets to citizens in Karachi. The alleged ringleader of a fraudster gang along with his accomplice was arrested in Jinnah Hospital after being caught red-handed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7331,7330],"class_list":["post-11705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-jinnah-hospital","tag-pak-blood-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}