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150 children suffering from leukemia were infected with hepatitis C. The mothers of the children claim that it was due to infected blood from blood transfusions, but the Ministry of Health claims that this could not have happened as all the blood in the Republic Blood Transfusion Center in Almaty is clean and the samples that were given to these children were retested after the accusations. However the Ministry has created a Commission to investigate how the children were infected.

On the other hand, in a story published a few hours later on Kazakhstan Today, The commission of Ministry of Health has revealed horrible infringements in the Republican blood centre, including some falsified documents. However the article does not go into great detail about the infringements.

Honestly there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information on this, possibly because the powers-that-be are trying to avoid another scandal like the HIV Crisis in South Kazakhstan where 100 people were infected with blood contaminated with the HIV virus. It was later found that hospitals in Skymkent were not testing blood, and were reusing needles and other hospital supplies because staff was selling supplies.