Department of Transfusion Medicine & Blood Centre is functional since Dec 2023. Since its inception, the Department provides state-of-the-art transfusion services. The salient features of the Department are:
– Complete automation: Various procedures like blood component separation, testing of infectious markers, blood grouping, antibody screening and various other pre-transfusion tests are performed on complete automated platforms which will ensure high quality blood components leaving very little scope for manual errors.
– Software Integration: The entire chain of events from donor registration, blood donation, apheresis donation, component separation, pre-transfusion testing, receiving blood requisitions and issuing blood components are based on barcode enabled LIS (Laboratory integrated system) software.
– Transfusion Safety: Blood Centre at AIIMS Kalyani is among the few Blood Centres in India to provide NAT tested blood in addition to the routine screening tests.
– Blood Components: All type of blood components (Packed red blood cells, Fresh frozen plasma, platelet concentrate, etc.) are available at Blood Centre AIIMS Kalyani round the clock. The Blood Centre presently holds valid manufacturing licenses for 15 different blood components, as per the Drugs & Cosmetics Act and DCGI approval. We also issue blood components to outside hospitals and Blood Centres.
– Apheresis services: Various donor and therapeutic apheresis procedures can be performed.
– PRP Therapeutics: The Department is also equipped to prepare and provide platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and PRP gel, supporting regenerative medicine applications in orthopaedics, dermatology, dentistry, wound care, and surgery.