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The disciplinary case has been launched for possible negligence of her duties.

As reported, the State Blood Donor Center has sent out nearly 200 letters to hospitals with warning patients in might have received blood donated by a person who is thought to have hepatitis C.

Thanks to recently obtained modern equipment, the State Blood Donor Center has discovered 25 carriers of hepatitis C among its blood donors over the past year.

The State Blood Donor Center’s director Iveta Ozolina said at a news conference on Thursday that the new testing equipment had detected hepatitis C in 25 people who had been donating blood on a regular basis, which in turn caused fears that some of the blood components that had been sent to hospitals might be infected and that some patients might have received hepatitis C through blood transfusions.