KARACHI: Four regional bloo
d transfusion centres (RBTC) will be opened for public by the end of the month under public-private partnership in Sindh, while the same number of more bloo
d banks will also be upgraded in second phase.
Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA) Secretary Dr Zahid Hasan Ansari, while talking to PPI, said the regional bloo
d banks had been constructed in Karachi, Jamshoro, Nawab shah and Sukkur with financial assistance of German Development Bank. He said this project had been completed with the cost of 100 million euros, and will be inaugurated by the end of March.
He informed that state-of-the-art blood processing, screening, testing, compone
nt preparation and storage facilities will be ensured in these bloo
d banks, adding that safe and screened blood will be provided to hundreds of patients every day through centralized bloo
d banking system.
He said four RBTCs would cover the entire province once they are made functional. He informed that a regional bloo
d transfusion centre would be linked with six hospital-based bloo
d banks (HBBBs). He said there was storage capacity of 50,000 blood bags in each regional bloo
d bank and around 200,000 blood bags can be stored once a time in bloo
d banks once made operational.
Dr A
nsari s
aid after inauguration of regional bloo
d banks, four more bloo
d banks of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, Civil Hospital Karachi, Sindh Government Korangi Hospital and Chandka Medical Center of Larkana would be upgraded with financial assistance of German government in second phase. He said up gradation process of four more bloo
d banks will complete in two years.
