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History And Back Ground
Voluntary blood donation has been an integral part of the KMCH, Blood Bank, which was started on 1981 with the aim to fulfill the Blood crisis in our hospital.
The Blood Bank conforms to all the mandatory regulations laid down by the drugs & cosmetics act 1940 & the drugs and cosmetics rules.
Blood components separation started from September 2009, Round the clock we provide the services.
Organization
Annually 4000 volunteers has been donating blood. Where our requirement of issuing blood has been 5000 units per year approximately.
Available Blood Components
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Whole Blood |
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Packed Cell (Red Cells) |
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Fresh frozen plasma (FFP) |
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Platelets |
Tests Done & Services
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Voluntary Blood donation camps |
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Screening T.T.D.S |
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HIV 1 & HIV 2 |
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HBV |
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HCV |
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VDRL |
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Malaria |
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Cell grouping & serum Grouping |
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Cross matching (Compatibility) |
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Hb% Estimation for Blood donors |
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Special tests like |
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DCT |
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ICT |
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Du antigen test |
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Antibody Screening test |
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Training for laboratory technicians |
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Training for nursing students |
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Training for staff Nurses |
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Course for P.G. M.D (Pathology) students |
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Training for medical officers (Govt Blood bank medical officers) |
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Component separation |
Blood Donation & Camps
We receive mainly from voluntary blood donors and other donors are family donors, directed donors, autologous donors. Donors will be selected as per standard operating procedure.
We conduct blood donation camps with the help of NGO’s of average about 4-6 camps per month.
24 hr’s services
We provide round the clock service to all the departments which require blood at appropriate time in KMCH. We arrange blood from other Government Hospitals in Chennai, which we don’t have and we issue the blood to other government hospitals which they are in need.
Contact Us
Email : kmchbloodbank@gmail.com
Phone : 044 – 28364955
Blood Bank
Dept. of Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank
Government Royapettah Hospital
Introduction
Govt. Royapettah Hospital is located at the heart of chennai city and caters to the needs of poor people in and around central chennai. Accident and trauma cases and cancer patients get treated in a large number in this prestigious institution. Blood bank in GRH functions for more than 40 years being headed by pioneers in transfusion services and has been functioning efficiently since then.
Regulation and infrastructure
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The Royapettah Government Blood Bank has been licensed. By state licensing authority and central licence approving authority Licence number- 13/28 C granted on 10.11.1994. |
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Blood bank is strengthened with qualified persons. |
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Financial support for all routine functioning of the blood bank is provided by TANSACS. |
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Voluntary blood donation, promotion , motivation programs and activities are carried out along with NGO’s. |
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Regular orientation and Refresher training session has been attended by |
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Blood bank Medical officers |
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Staff nurses |
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Lab Technicians |
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Counselors |
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In Royapettah Hospital Blood bank with constant support from CAPACS, TANSACS and NGO’s the percentage of voluntary blood donors is around 100% . |
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HIV status among voluntary blood donors is reduced to 0.03 % |
Our Blood Bank conforms to all the mandatory regulations laid down by the Drugs & cosmetics act 1940 and Drugs and cosmetics rules.
Organization
We collect around 3600 units of blood every year and we issue around 3000 units of blood every year.
Available Blood component
Whole blood.
Services Provided
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Voluntary blood donation camps |
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Screening TTDS |
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HIV 1 & 2 |
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HBV |
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HCV |
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VDRL |
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Malaria |
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Cell grouping & Serum grouping (Tube method) |
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Cross matching ( Compatibility ) – Coomb’s Technique |
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Hb % estimation for blood donors by calorimetric method |
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Special tests like |
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Direct coomb’s test (D.C.T) |
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Indirect coomb’s test (I.C.T) |
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DU antigen test |
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Antibody screening test |
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Academic Activities
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Training for Lab technicians |
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Training for Staff Nurses |
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Training for Medical officers ( Govt. Blood Bank medical officers ) |
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Training for CRRI & Post Graduates |
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Blood donation awareness programs in colleges & schools. |
Blood Donation Camps
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Blood donors are voluntary, autologous and family relative donors. |
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Donors are screened and selected as per standard operating procedure. |
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We attend an average of 3 – 5 blood camps per month with the help of NGO’s. |
24 hours service
We provide round the clock service to all departments which require blood at appropriate time in GRH. We arrange blood from other Govt. Hospitals in chennai in case of need ( rare Groups ). We also issue blood to other Govt. hospitals in chennai as and when required. Walk in Donor are promoted in case of emergencies.
Statistics
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VD donor |
RD donor |
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Issued GRH |
Issued
OH |
HIV |
HBV |
HCV |
VDRL |
MALARIA |
CAMPS |
2000 |
2937 |
623 |
3560 |
2367 |
1124 |
63 |
96 |
NIL |
6 |
NIL |
45 |
2001 |
2193 |
1175 |
3370 |
2495 |
502 |
85 |
111 |
39 |
3 |
NIL |
33 |
2002 |
1449 |
1627 |
3076 |
3066 |
345 |
47 |
103 |
21 |
2 |
NIL |
24 |
2003 |
2082 |
1259 |
3341 |
2985 |
391 |
35 |
106 |
17 |
6 |
NIL |
22 |
2004 |
3122 |
616 |
3798 |
3122 |
595 |
13 |
64 |
35 |
8 |
NIL |
35 |
2005 |
3291 |
560 |
3779 |
3182 |
574 |
17 |
80 |
31 |
8 |
NIL |
31 |
2006 |
3039 |
790 |
3829 |
3012 |
848 |
5 |
81 |
7 |
NIL |
NIL |
33 |
2007 |
3586 |
45 |
3631 |
2395 |
1470 |
5 |
75 |
5 |
3 |
NIL |
43 |
2008 |
3300 |
NIL |
3300 |
2271 |
856 |
2 |
51 |
NIL |
NIL |
NIL |
42 |
2009 |
2728 |
NIL |
2728 |
2413 |
834 |
1 |
51 |
6 |
NIL |
NIL |
38 |
New Initiative
Donor Enrollment
3600 new Blood donors to be identified by Blood grouping and awareness creation camps.
Quality Goal at Department of Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank
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To make voluntary blood donation – 100 % always. |
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To make safe and quality blood / blood components available to all patients during emergencies and as and when needed. |
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Implementing uniform standard operating procedure for good manufacturing practice. |
Requirements
1. Infrastructure
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New building that conforms to the specification laid down by the Drug and Cosmetics act, for whole blood collection / Blood component preparation and storage . Pheresis / and also with teaching facilities. |
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Increase in staff pattern ( staff nurse / Lab technician ) |
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Social worker. |
2. Equipments
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Donor Couch |
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Blood bank refrigerator |
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Cell separator – for plasma pheresis |
Contact Us
Email : Chandra56r@gmail.com.
Phone : 044-28482611.
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