By our correspondent
Agartala, February 11, 2019: State Health department is all set to signing an MoU with the West Bengal Government for exchange of Plasma with RBC, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Sudip Roy Barman today in Agartala.
Addressing a Blood Donation Programme at state Pollution Control Board, he said, every year a good number of Plasma units get destroyed due to lack of technical shortcomings. Now, the health department took the initiative to exchange the extra units of Plasma with West Bengal with RBC.
“Plasma is an important component of the Blood that is needed to treat the patients having burn injuries. We are lucky enough that such incidents are rare here but there are other diseases like Thelasamia and Cancer where RBC is of supreme need”, Barman added.
If all falls in the right direction the government would be signing a MoU very soon, he said. The Minister added that the health department had also decided not to use the blood units as a single medium to carry out the transfusion. The department had directed the health officials to give blood to the patients as per requirement— if someone lacked Plasma or RBC or WBC, he should be given the separated units.
“All the three blood component separation units at IGM, GB and Gomati District Hospital are operational”, he said adding that soon the number of separation units would be increased. “Separation of the blood components is done at the first six hours but often the blood donated reaches from the camps late from faraway places”, he said.
