Mikhail Ivanov, a senior department official, told a Voronezh news conference that local albumin production had been suspended but that the region had about two metric tons of reserve medicine that would last at least six months.
Ivanov said that, contrary to media reports, the city had not received any orders from the Federal Service for the Oversight of Public Health and Social Affairs to cancel the regional blood bank's license to produce albumin.
As for the HIV+ donor, a 35-year-old woman, Ivanov said she had left the city with her children.
"We have no right to look for her under the law," Ivanov said.
Ramil Khabriyev, the head of the service, said earlier that the woman, who was a regular donor, had tested HIV-negative when she last donated blood on May 5.
On May 26, the infected blood was used in a transfusion for a young woman who had just delivered a baby. Six months later, the recipient was diagnosed with HIV. On May 20, the donor returned to the blood bank and tested HIV+.
Investigators and experts have concluded that when the woman donated blood on May 5, the virus was in its incubatory stage when it is impossible to identify, Khabriyev said.
He added that the medical personnel had violated the three-month quarantine on blood-based medicines.
Investigators said that if convicted, the health workers could face up to five years in prison.
According to Ivanov, this was the fifth blood donor diagnosed with HIV in Voronezh this year, but the infected blood was never used in the previous cases.
