Rotary Blood Bank is India's largest blood bank, located in the Tughlakabad Institutional Area,

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Background

Rotary Blood Bank was established in 2002 and is under the supervision of the Central Government. In September 2021, Rotary revealed its plan to extend its services to other parts of the country. It has blood banks in cities including

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, and

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. The blood bank signed an MoU with Shri Vishwakarma Skill University for providing certificate programme in phlebotomy technician and OJT in medical lab technology programmes.

Blood collection center

At the 56-57 Tughlakabad Institutional Area facility are available collection stations for 5-50 people giving

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at a time.

Camp

Rotary collects blood from organized groups e.g.

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and Organizations, where any person can donate blood. Blood collections are collected by two Mini Buses which provide a mobile medical facility.

Processing of blood

After collection of blood from in-house/camp, it is processed in the lab; where an erst while state-of-art facility is available after initial screening. Here blood separated in major three components e.g.

Red cells Red blood cells (RBCs), also referred to as red cells, red blood corpuscles (in humans or other animals not having nucleus in red blood cells), haematids, erythroid cells or erythrocytes (from Greek ''erythros'' for "red" and ''kytos'' for "holl ...

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and

Platelets Platelets, also called thrombocytes (from Greek θρόμβος, "clot" and κύτος, "cell"), are a component of blood whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping, thereby ini ...

. In last few years there is a large demand for Platelets from September to December to treat

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System/equipments

* MCS+ Hemonitics for Platelet Apheresis * Mitis 2 automated blood grouping system * Cryofuge 6000 refrigerated centrifuge * Ortho AutoVue Ultra for blood grouping and cross matching * VITROS 3600 used for testing infectious marker * Platelet agitator

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