Infrastruture

1. Donor section

• Blood donors should be provided with high standards of care and assurance of their health and safety.
• Counseling is an integral part of the blood transfusion process
•  Make the donor comfortable and assure him about safety.
•  Each donor is screened for risk of transmissible disease by questionnaire prior to donating blood, and each unit of blood donated in the blood centre is routinely screened for various infectious disease pathogens using FDA-approved assays.

2. Platelet Apheresis

Since 2013, the system of ‘Pheresis’, which includes the facility of ‘Single Donor Platelets’ (SDP) i.e. removing only the ‘platelets’ from the blood and releasing the remaining blood back into the body of the donor, has also been started in the blood centre since 2013. Jankalyan Rakta Pedhi, however, has decided to make this facility, which is expensive elsewhere, available to all common people at a discounted rate. It is widely used especially in dengue and cancer patients. Janakalyan itself has also accepted the responsibility of getting blood donors for ‘SDP’.

3. Red Cell Serology Lab

Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTI) Testing Laboratory : After blood collection, all the tests of blood are done by this automatic and updated device (automated Elisa Processor) for ‘verification of possible diseases through blood transfusion’ (Transfusion Transmitted Infections). Naturally, both time savings and accuracy are achieved

4. Component Preparation lab :

Blood is often separated into Components such as Platelets, Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP), Packed Red Cells (RBC), Cryoprecipitate and then given to patients what they need. The advantage is we make the use of blood donation to maximum benefit. Therefore, one unit(350/450m1) of blood collected from the donor will be given to at least 4 needy patients.

5. Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTI)

Screening for transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) to exclude blood donations at risk of transmitting infection from donors to recipients is a critical part of the process of ensuring that transfusion is as safe as possible. Common TTIs are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and syphilis, because of their prolonged viremia and carrier or latent state. Blood Centre has fully automated testing equipment like Best 2000 Automated Elisa Processor marketed by Dynex for ELISA.

6. Component Storage

The storage of blood and blood components is done very carefully with the help of special equipment at the right temperature. Like red blood cells (2 to 60), platelets (20 to 240), plasma and cryo (-40), the ability to store about six thousand blood cells at a time ensures availability of almost all blood groups and blood cells at all times.