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The history of voluntary blood donation in India dates back to 1942 during the Second World War when blood donors were required to help the wounded soldiers. The first blood bank was established in Kolkata, West Bengal in March 1949 at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health and was managed by the Red Cross.
Rotary Blood Bank was established in 2002 and is under the supervision of the Central Government. [2] In September 2021, Rotary revealed its plan to extend its services to other parts of the country. It has blood banks in cities including Kakinada , Hyderabad , and Visakhapatnam . [ 3 ]
Blood donation campaigns are events that allow people to donate blood at schools, churches, and other community locations. A blood drive or a blood donor session is an event in which donors come to donate allogeneic blood. These can occur at a blood bank, but they are often set up at a location in the community, such as a shopping center ...
Kanta Krishen was one of the associates of H. D. Shourie when he gathered information and filed a civil writ petition at the Supreme Court of India against the commercial practices in blood donation on which the apex court of India returned a judgment banning commercial blood donation. Later, she organised several awareness campaigns and ...
About 50,000 blood donors donate blood annually at Prathama which is India's first fully automated blood centre. [3] On World Thalassemia Day 2016, Prathama introduced Nucleic acid testing (NAT) of donated blood to reduce the risk of transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs) in people receiving blood. Transfusion of unsafe blood that has not ...
History of blood donation (8 P) O. Blood donation organizations (1 C, 2 P) ... Blood donation in India; Blood donation restrictions on men who have sex with men;
On 27 May 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved of a new blood donor history questionnaire for general use by blood establishments, which is compatible with the deferral for 12 months. [211] Before this update, the approved questionnaires were compatible only with an indefinite deferral of blood donations from MSM.
2012 - 96600 units of blood in single day; 2014 - They have collected 100,212 units of blood in single day and got their name registered in the Guinness Book of Records; 2016 - Conducted marathon world longest blood donation drive by organizing nonstop blood donation camps from 01 Jan 2016 to 31 December 2016 in parts of country. 2020 - Devoted ...