National Voluntary Blood Donation Day

Appropriate clinical use of Blood
 

It is felt that country facing an overall acute shortage of blood.

There is no scientific method to assess the requirement of blood in the country as a whole.

The gap between demand and supply of blood is continuously widening due to mushrooming of super specialist hospitals in the urban areas and continuous inappropriate use of blood.

 It has been estimated that approximately 30 per cent transfusions are either unnecessary or wasteful.

For the purpose of reducing the wasteful use of blood, NACO has already set up 40 component separation units all over the country.

The doctors and technicians working in the component labs have been trained at KEM Hospital, Mumbai.

A National guideline for appropriate use of blood has been prepared and widely circulated.

One plasma Fractionation Training Center has already been set up at KEM Hospital, Mumbai and additional units are proposed to be set up at Delhi, Chennai and Calcutta.

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Dr Marwah