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Shortage of Blood in India as Blood Banks Do Not Maintain Buffer Stocks
According to the protocol specified by National AIDS Control Organisation, 25% of all blood collected by a blood bank has to be kept aside as buffer stock, to be used only in case of an emergency.
However, according to Nacos national programme officer for blood safety Debashish Gupta, only 20% of the blood banks follow the protocol strictly. Gupta said: Of Indias 2,433 blood banks, only 20% maintain the buffer stock. The majority are so small that they dont even know how to handle an emergency
Haresh Saxena, Head of the Department of transfusion medicine at Sawai Man Singh Hospital (Jaipur), where the critically injured patients were taken following the recent bomb blast, told the Times of India that it was the buffer stock that saved the day for critical patients.
Buffer stock is crucial for disaster management. We collect 50,000 units of blood annually and break it into 75,000 units of components. On the day of the blasts, we had 800 units of blood in buffer stock that came in handy, Saxena said.
According to Gupta, only 500 blood banks in India can be termed as big banks because they collect more than 10,000 units annually. Nearly 600 of the rest are small banks that collect a paltry amount of 1,000 units a year. Most of the 2,433 blood banks are moderate they collect 3,000-5,000 units of blood a year.
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Dinesh Jindal(Guest)
03/06/2009
want to kwow how many victims/pateints die every year due to shortage of blood in India
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