Nagpur: Grand Blood Bank faces unprecedented platelet shortages because a large number of dengue fever patients are accepted and prescribed loading.
At IGGMCH and GMCH, some graduate students are also exposed to diseases transmitted through vectors and in the urgent need for platelets.
However, the resident doctor told the Toi that some had to wait a day to arrange platelet pockets at IGGMCH.
Dr.
Pradeep Butele, Head of Blood Bank at IGGMCH, said the requirements consisted of five to ten bags a day and they extracted platelets on the basis of SOS.
“At the other time, we have to throw away when the bag has a shelf life of only five days.
The collection has dropped since Covid began,” he said.
GMCH Medical Inspector Dr Avinash Gawande said they also faced shortages and would organize blood donor camps.
Dr Harish Warbhe, medical director at Lifeline Blood Bank, said he had not seen the lack of platelets that were so large in the last 21 years of his career.
“Dengue is widespread.
More people suffer from him and the outbreak has been prolonged unlike previous years when this disease will subside in a few weeks,” he said.
Dr.
Warbhe said they doubled the number of camps but the request was too high.
“We will provide 30 to 40 platelet donors (SDSS) per month.
It will rise to 10 sdps per day in the dengue season.
This time we get 30 to 40 SDP demands a day.
On 15 and August 16, we collected 165 donor donors ( RDPS) through camps.
They are all taken a day, “he said.
According to the doctor, the RDP is extracted from the blood donated using a machine that takes more than 6 hours.
SDSE prepared during the contribution itself uses aphaeresis machine.
One SDP unit is equivalent to more than five RDP units.