BLOOD TRANSFUSION SCREENING PROTOCOL

Jan. 2, 2019

In December last year, a pregnant woman was transfused with blood from a donor who was HIV-positive and had hepatitis B. Preliminary investigations have found that the lab had failed to detect that the donor’s blood was HIV-positive.

The standard procedure:

Besides probing the donor’s medical history and current health, the standard procedure is to mandatorily screen for five diseases — HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis and malaria — before blood is collected.
National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has an External Quality Assurance Scheme under which it conducts annual refresher programmes in tie-up with experts besides doing random sampling for laboratories and technicians.

Source : Indian Express

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