Transfusion Medicine, at  BMHRC is a 24 hours blood transfusion service with a facility of 100 % Blood component preparation and Aphaeresis’ technology with a provision for blood cell separation and therapeutic plasma exchange (Unique in M.P.) functional under the Drugs and cosmetic act of India (Lic. No. 28-C/6/2000).The blood center has automated equipment for appropriate screening of blood units for various transfusion transmissible diseases and is providing safe blood to the patients. All types of blood components like packed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelet concentrates and cryoprecipitate are available for optimum and best utilization of each unit of whole blood.

Modern antibody screening and cross-matching techniques along with immunohaematological tests are being performed at the department of transfusion medicine. Patients of certain diseases can be treated by Plasmapheresis and single donor products can be prepared with the help of the Blood cell separator. This type of blood transfusion facility is one of the very few of its kind in the state.

Achievements

n      Transfusion medicine at BMHRC is one of the very few of its kinds in the country, in terms of facilities, equipment, work protocols and expertise of staff.

n      After obtaining license for whole blood, blood components and Aphaeresis’ in one go we have not looked back.

n      It dose only has its own standard operating procedure, but also has a Hospital blood Transfusion Policy for ensuring safe transfusions.

n      We have achieved to prepare all collected blood units in to components and have issued more than 7000 blood component units till date to all gas victims and private patients of this hospital and also patients requiring blood outside this hospital including cancer patients who have been largely benefited by availability of blood stock at any point of time.

n      Single donor platelets (aphaeresis) have been issued as a life saving modality of many patients.

n      All blood units are being tested for anti HIV, anti HCV antibodies as well as Hepatitis B antigen malarial parasites or Syphilis by using WHO an NACO approved kits and reagents.

n      Out of all the units transfused there has not been a single major Transfusion reaction except for three febrile non - hemolytic transfusion reactions, the incidence of which is lower than reported internationally.

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