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Screws tightened on blood banks
It is now mandatory for blood banks to hand over 30 per cent of blood units collected during camp to govt.
It is now mandatory for the blood banks to hand over 30 per cent of blood units collected during the camp to the government blood banks free of cost within three to five days of conducting the camp.
The SBTC has permitted 19 blood banks across the state to conduct voluntary blood donation camps up to March 31, 2006. There are 204 blood banks across the state. About 3.5 lakh units of blood (each unit will be 350 to 450 ml) is collected by the banks every year.
However, the requirement would be more than eight lakh units if acute hospital bed strength is taken into consideration. Speaking to The Times of India, SBTC member secretary and APSCAS joint director (blood safety) Dr M V Ramana Rao said the new guidelines were issued to streamline the voluntary blood donation camps.
The organisers of camps should inform the SBTC about number of units of blood collected during the camp, he said. Rao said an unit of blood can be sold at a maximum price of Rs 500. The price has been fixed by the National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) after taking all expenditures including, cost of the blood sachet, into consideration.
Even the Indian Red Cross Society has to hand over 30 per cent of the blood units to the government blood banks, he said. "Permission to the blood banks, which violate these guidelines, will not be extended in future for conducting the camps under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act," he said.
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