Pune: The State Blood Transfusion Board states that Maharashtra is left with blood stocks that can last up to 10 days and have asked collectors and commissioners to help arrange camps and mobilize donors to refill reserves.
A council 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 failure of pandemic and social organizations to regulate such events in the midst of covid-induced restrictions.
The Board has asked 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 refill steeping in state blood banks.
We need to often have such camps and not only once,” said Director of the State Transfusion Assistant of the State of Arun Thorat.
The previously announced blood donation camp had witnessed a large response.
“The response to the camps that are recently 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 who are worried about contributing blood after a pandemic.
The Board has also reached NGOs and social organizations to help and increase the number of blood donors.
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 council 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, Chairman of the Indian Pune Hospital Council, said, “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 in the near future .
“Dr.
Patil said with dengue fever patients who needed more blood platelets and elective operations continued, there must be demand for more blood units.