PURPOSE/MISSION

Assuring safe blood products through good manufacturing practices controlled by quality standards, skilled manpower and high end technology.

Apollo Hospitals Bangalore is a premier tertiary care hospitals, many patients are admitted for complex surgeries and medical treatment from all surrounding places and also referred from various nursing homes. The department provides for blood and its components to these patients. Blood is also issued to other hospitals and nursing homes on request.

Blood components are prepared from Voluntary and Replacement donors only. Blood donation camps are undertaken by the department. Professionals or paid donors are strictly avoided.
Strict donor selection criteria are followed by the department to ensure good health to the donor and good quality blood products. Good manufacturing practice and adherence to the standards by Drug’s Authority is implemented in all sections of Transfusion Medicine.

Primary goal of the department is to ensure of all blood products by adhering to ELISA testing for all transfusion transmitted diseases. However the risk in the window period donation can be avoided by introduction of Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) which the department is planning for the same.

The hospital has an APHERESIS UNIT for platelet pheresis, plasma pheresis and plasma exchange.

The department is functional from March 2007 and has collected blood from March 2007 and has collected blood from 1050 donors with more than 2000 issues of products prepared.