How Mumbai's private hospitals buy blood for Rs 100, sell for Rs 2,000

Updated On: 21 April, 2015 06:35 AM IST | | Sadaguru Pandit

<p>Documents accessed by mid-day through RTI have revealed that hospitals are buying blood at nominal rates from the government-run Rajawadi Hospital, only to provide it to patients at 20 times the price</p>

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How Mumbai's private hospitals buy blood for Rs 100, sell for Rs 2,000

The thousands of well-meaning citizens who donate their blood at government hospitals are probably unaware, that their blood not only saves lives, but also serves to fill the coffers of private hospitals and blood banks that buy it at subsidised rates and then sell it to the common man at inflated prices.