In a medical emergency, finding the right type and amount of blood can prove to be the difference between life and death. Continuing an RTI investigation through which mid-day had highlighted last week how this precious resource was being sold at inflated rates by private hospitals this newspaper has found that at a BMC-run hospital in Mulund (West), lifesaving blood is simply going down the drain due to inefficient management.

Not only is the  building being held together with nets, the blood bank lacks manpower and resources and is currently not much more than a storage centre for blood