Streamling blood banking system in India

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Dear FORUM,

I must say that government has taken lot of pain to stream line blood banking

system in India. There are three components to be looked in for safe blood :

No.1, the Donor: we need batallion of voluntary blood donors in all state.

except west bengal and gujarat state, there is a wide gap between voluntary

donrs/replacement donors and demand of blood.we need to have voluntary blood

donation movement through out India like family planning during sanjay gandhi

era or pulse polio drive. good coardination between NGOs and government can make

this a success.

No.2, Blood bank: no pathological laboratories should be allowed to run blood

bank as these are the grey areas from where proffessional donor gates entery

into blood donation. unless there is wide gap for demand and supply,tgis is bit

difficult.one must establish credibility of blood bank and supply of safe and

quality blood.

No.3, Clinician role: the clinician must requeite blood form blood bank which

has credibility/good manufacturing practice/standars operating procedure

etc.atlest for blood transfussion donot compromise cost and quality and

personale relation and also emphasise on rational use.

The community at large should be educated for safe blood .

long live voluntary blood donation

Dr.Niloo Vaishnav

E-mail: <niloov@...>