Transfusion Medicine

• Blood donors form the backbone of any transfusion medicine service. Our aim is to increase the percentage of repeat voluntary donors who form a steady source of the safest blood. This is will help us in reducing the burden on patient's relatives from distant places for replacement donation.
• We appreciate and encourage voluntary donors by increasing the awareness and education regarding blood donation and also honor them and register them in our endeavor to form a voluntary donor database.
• The second most important aspect is to provide safe units in terms of transfusion-transmitted infections for which we have a highly sensitive screening test based on the principle of chemiluminescence to reduce the number of false negatives.
• The third important aspect is precise serological testing in patients and donors samples for which we have gel techniques, extended phenotyping and antibody screening and typing facilities which enables us to select the best match unit for the patient.
• The fourth important aspect is to provide units which meet the highest standards of quality as set by the accreditation authorities for which we have a strict and regular quality control of the products and the equipment.

• The fifth important aspect is the therapeutic mode of intervention for which we have the facility of plasma exchange, cascade plasmapheresis, therapeutic apheresis and therapeutic phlebotomy. In addition to that we have transfusion medicine experts who have an active discussion with the clinicians regarding problems faced in multitransfused, transplant patients and in work up and treatment of patients undergoing ABOi liver and renal transplant patients.
• The most important aspect is of hemovigilance i.e. vein to vein scrutiny of the unit collected and transfused. To serve this purpose we introduced the concept of pink sheet which maintains the transfusion record of all the patients and a transfusion follow up form which is recorded for all events of transfusion and a regular reporting and active participation in the hospital transfusion committee.
• To sub serve the aforementioned aims we have a dedicated and a well-trained staff who all hold patients overall well being in the highest regards and adhere strictly to SOPs (standard operating procedures) and GMP (good manufacturing practices).

Services Rendered by the department: From January'22 to November'23

New services & facilities added to the department : Nil

Educational Activities

• Regular teaching and training program
• Department has organized 2-day CME and Workshop on Serological approach to red cell antibody identification 19th & 20th April 2023.
• Department has organized CME on “Transfusion Support in Liver Disease Patients” on 15th Sep 2023.

Courses offered by the Department

Departmental Achievements

India's first Delhi Plasma Bank was established COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Bank during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020.