Maha blood stock ends up to a maximum of 10 days

Pune: The State Blood Transfusion Board has stated that Maharashtra is left with blood stocks that can last up to 10 days and urge collectors and commissioners to help organize camps and mobilize donors to refill reserves.
A State Blood Transfusion Board official said it had around 40,000 units of blood in 350 blood banks throughout the state.
“It can last for 8-10 days due to the usual buffer of 15-20 days,” the official said.
The Board has linked the situation with a decrease in blood donor camp, legs that are lower than donors due to pandemic failure and social organizations to regulate such events in the midst of covid-induced limitations.
The council has urged collectors and commissioners to help the Ministry of Public Health regulate blood donor camps in compliance with the Covid protocol.
“More blood donor camps with the help of local authorities will recharge depletion in state blood banks.
We need to often have such camps and not just once,” said the Director of the State Blood Transfusion Board Assistant, Dr.
Arun Thorat said.
The previously announced blood donation camp had witnessed a large response.
“The response to the camps held recently is relatively low, with a collection drop to 50 units of 100 units in the past,” a blood bank official said.
Other coordinators of blood donor drives say social media is the only platform to reach people and many are worried about contributing blood after addemic addicts.
The State Blood Transfusion Board has also reached NGOs and social organizations to help and increase the number of blood donor drives.
An official said the office closure and prolonged educational institutions also reduced the frequency of the drive.
District collector Pune Rajesh Deshmukh has announced a blood donor drive in Khed on Wednesday.
The official blood Transfusion Board official said the theory of “donor replacement” adopted by the hospital must be stopped and the health hub instead planned a blood donor drive.
Some hospitals have driven blood donors to refill supplies.
Dr.
Sanjay Patil, Chairperson of the Indian Chapter of the India Chapter Hospital, said that “the Indian medical association has reached several Mandal Ganesh to conduct a blood donor camp.
But the community’s response to such initiatives is minimal because of the pandemic.
We plan to do more drives.” Patil said with dengue fever patients who needed more blood platelets and elective operations continued, there must be increased demand for more blood units.