LARKANA, March 27: The Safe Blood Transfusion Authority has appealed to the district Nazim and health EDO to take action against unregistered laboratories in the district.

SBTA Programme Manager Dr Farhana Memon, in a letter to focal person, Dr Farooque Soomro, instructed that quicker action should be taken against the defaulters.

Dr Soomro told this correspondent on Friday that application forms were issued to around 70 government and private pathological laboratories in the district.

He said they were asked to not only fill the form but also keep the laboratories fully equipped in line with the entries and instructions.

Dr Soomro said five pathological and blood bank laboratories that had applied for registration were found unfit for registration.

He said those laboratories would be either sealed or heavily fined which were not meeting the mandatory requirements needed to run them for which he had received fresh instructions from the SBTA.

Action would come through the district Nazim and EDO health, he said.

He termed the collection centres, established in the private medical centres, illegal and disclosed that the owners of these sample gathering points had been asked to stop this practice or face action.

SBTA provincial programme manager, Dr Farhana Memon said, they had received incomplete registration applications from Larkana.

The matter has been conveyed to the Sindh health secretary, Dr Soomro said.