King Edward Memorial Hospital - Departments: Blood Bank

Objectives of the Blood Bank

The primary aim of the Blood Bank is to provide quality medical care to patients by dispensing safe and good quality blood and its components for transfusions, to promote voluntary blood donation and to discharge its responsibility to donors who provide blood.

The main functions of the department are :

Proper blood collection facilities

By proper donor selection
Safe procedures for bleeding donors
Promotion of voluntary blood donation and motivation of donors to return for donation
Ensuring confidentiality of donor record
Providing information to donors
Optimal testing, preservation and utilisation of blood
Providing properly grouped and crossmatched blood

Detection of transfusion transmitted infections

Providing specially processed blood for patients requiring repeated transfusions
Ensuring optimal utilisation of blood by preparing blood components
Proper preservation of blood
Prompt and appropriate disposal of unsafe blood

Promptly provide blood, round the clock