In West Bengal, a minor girl reportedly tried to sell blood to buy smartphone, and thankfully timely intervention from a hospital saved the day. The minor had reportedly ordered a phone for herself from her relative’s phone worth Rs 9,000. To buy the phone without letting her parents finding out, she decided to go to a blood bank, and sell her blood.
As per reports, the 16-year-old minor reached a blood bank of the Balurghat district hospital earlier on Monday and expressed her desire to sell the blood. Shocked and startled at the girl’s intentions, the district hospital’s blood bank reached out to Child Welfare Committee, and alerted about the matter.
The CWC then contacted the minor girl’s parents, and the girl was later handed over to her parents safely. It should be noted that the girl’s parents had no idea she had taken to the blood bank. The parents were under the impression that their daughter had left home to attend tuition.
However, the minor had instead boarded a bus from Tapan to reach Balurghat, 30 km away from her native city. At the blood bank, the minor girl claimed that she wanted to sell the blood to get money for her brother’s treatment.
Only after she was counselled, did she reveal the truth.
The Facts of the Matter
From education to entertainment to staying connected to friends and family, everything is being done on smartphone. It’s no wonder that teens and adults want to get their hands on a smartphone as soon as they can. However, how far can one go to get a smartphone?
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West Bengal Minor Crosses All Limits to Get Phone
In West Bengal, a minor girl went as far as going to the blood bank and expressing her desire to sell her blood, only to buy a new smartphone. The incident was reported from Tapan in Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal.
It so happened that on Monday morning, 16-year-old minor reached the Balurghat district hospital’s blood bank and told them that she is interested to sell her blood.
A Hindustan Times report quoted Kanak Kumar Das who works for the blood bank, saying, “Initially we thought that she had come to take blood as it was a blood bank of the district hospital. But when she told us that she wanted to sell us blood, we were shocked.”
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Hospital Alerts Child Welfare Commitee
Startled by the minor girl’s desires, the hospital immediately alerted the Child Welfare Committee. Soon, counsellor Rita Mahato rushed to the hospital. While talking to the official of CWC, the minor girl initially claimed that she had come to the blood bank to sell her blood to get money for her brother’s treatment.
Girl Already Ordered Phone Worth Rs 9,000
However, after some counselling, the girl confessed wanting money to buy a smartphone which she had already ordered from her relative’s phone. The girl had reportedly ordered the smartphone worth Rs 9,000 which would be delivered on Thursday.
After getting the girl’s confession, the CWC official contacted the minor’s parents, and handed her over. The child’s parents later reported that they had no idea their minor daughter had been out to sell her blood. The girl’s mother claimed that she was under the pretext that her daughter was out for tuitions.
“I was not at home when she went out. I am not sure how she got the idea that she could sell blood to get money,” the girl’s father, a vegetable vendor, was quoted by Hindustan Times.
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How the Minor Made her Way to Blood Bank
Reportedly, the girl had left from her home on the pretext of attending tuitions, but instead parked her cycle at a bus stand. She then boarded a bus which took her some 30 km away from her native town to the district headquarters in Balurghat, from where she headed to the blood bank.
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