Regional Safe Blood Transfusion Centers will be established in Punjab:Secretary Health Punjab

Lahore: Regional Safe Blood Transfusion Centers will be established in Punjab with the assistance of German Government and in the first phase the buildings of Regional Blood Centers in Bahawalpur and Multan have been completed. German Government is providing 2.314 Euro through its executing agency KFW.

It was revealed by Secretary Health Punjab Jawad Rafique Malik while chairing a meeting in connection with the Safe Blood Transfusion Service Project phase II at Civil Secretariat today. Chief Planning Officer Health Department Abdul Haq Bhatti, German Consultant KFW Dr. (Capt.) Raza, Director Safe Blood Transfusion Project Islamabad Dr. Amir Maqbool and other officers of the department attended the meeting. It was informed that buildings of Regional Blood Transfusion Centers in Multan and Bahawalpur have already been completed and KFW also provided medical equipment for these centers and the process of recruitment of the staff is underway and arrangements are being made to functionalize these centers at earliest. In the second phase two more Regional Safe Blood Centers will be established in Faisalabad and Rawalpindi. Government has already allocated a piece of land of six kanal in Faisalabad for this purpose.

Secretary Health said that all modern blood screening and transfusion facilities would be provided in these centers and the Hospital Based Blood Banks would be linked with these Regional Safe Blood Transfusion Centers which would provide safe blood to the hospitals of their region and adjoining areas.