Medical Conditions and blood donation

As per the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and guidelines from national blood transfusion council the medical conditions mentioned for deferral is vague and incomplete and hence the medical officer has got the discretion to take or defer donation based on recent developments in modern medicine.  

According to Dr Sunder Periyavan, Additional Professor, Officer in charge, Transfusion Medicine Center, NIMHANS, Bangalore -

Often when donors turn up for emergency blood donations or even in voluntary blood donation drives, various mental and physical factors dictate the comfort levels during and after blood donation. It has been realized that by following a simple set of things to do before donating blood will ensure that a lot of these donations can become much for safe and pleasurable to the donor

Here are 10 simple pre donation steps that will ensure that you will have a safe and successful blood donation

1. Ascertain your eligibility:

Few of us are not very convinced with the fact that Donating blood is a very safe process. Various myths along with the lack of awareness amongst the people contribute to the unwillingness to donate blood. Here we will discuss some of the common reasons why blood donation is a very safe procedure.

Myth: As needle is involved in the process, one may contract AIDS or related disease:

Every time you walk into a blood donation drive organized by Sankalp, one of the pre donation measures adopted is a Hemoglobin test. Do you know what is it all about? Read on to know the value of that little prick on your finger before the actual donation.