Advanced Transfusion Medicine

Connecting Lives To Provide Hope of Healing By Advance Transfusion Services

Objectives

It is an Institution that envisions meaningful medical services to the society. Blood-transfusion services is an integral part of medical therapy that can be life-saving in critical cases and have key role in solid organ and stem cell transplant program.

To provide best in class, safe and cost-effective supply of blood products to meet the needs of the healthcare community, patients and our donors through advanced transfusion medicine practices. Through these services the energy of the students is also channelized in social causes. The staff and faculty at blood centre is also involved in blood Centre management and advanced research activities in Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion.

Objectives
The Context
The Context

To inculcate the values of Gandhian philosophy for human service and benevolence among the students as they are inspired for the activities like blood donation, platelet donation, plasma donation and advanced therapeutic care in life threatening conditions.

Mission of our blood centre is to be Centre of excellence for blood transfusion services by providing safest possible clinical application that ensures the highest quality product and services, operating efficiencies, innovation and values the highest ethical, medical, and scientific standards, compassion, respect, integrity, and caring for all people, including the donor satisfaction and improved patient care , and the acquisition, sharing, and application of knowledge, thus fostering a corporate and civic culture to continually earn and maintain public trust.

To lead the fields of transfusion medicine by adopting the most advancing technology and provide a ray of hope for the future by teaching the medical leaders of tomorrow.

The Practice

The Blood Centre at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital is committed to provide safe blood and its components with stress on quality, patient satisfaction and adherence to ethical standards with world class services.

The Blood Centre provides distinctive services to the society by following services which are unique to Blood Centre MGUMST.

  • Only centre for Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) testing and crossmatching of deseased donor and solid organ recipient in Rajasthan
  • Double Cascade Plasmapheresis for ABO incompatible Solid organ transplant
  • Safest possible blood/components by most advance automated testing
  • Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
  • Intrauterine transfusion
  • Granulocyte concentrate
  • Hematopoietic Peripheral Blood Stem cell
  • Irradiated Blood Products
  • Leukodepleted Blood Products

23K+

management

The management is committed to comply with all the ethics regulations and need of National and International Standards. The MGMCH Blood Centre is located in the premises of the SRCC annex block, in a highly clean and sterile environment.

The Blood Centre has an area of 23000 sq ft for its operations. It is consisting of a room for Counseling, Blood collection, Apheresis, Blood component, Cryopreservation, Hematopoietic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell collection, Automated crossmatch lab with spacious registration and refreshment area.

Our centre is providing a well-organized state-of- the- art blood transfusion and transplant immunology services. All products are safest possible across the nation, clinically effective and of appropriate and consistent quality.

Strengths of Blood Centre Includes
  • Dedicated Team
  • Library & Digital Conference Room
  • Efficient & Trained Supportive Staff
  • Research Lab
  • Other important Machines are COM.TEC FK For specilized Apheresis based procedures, Vitros ECI for detection of transfusion transmitted infections, G5 for Leuko reduction, FACS CANTO II Flowcytometer, Illumina iSeq Next Generation Sequencing , Luminex for HLA testing
  • ICMR initiated PLACID randomized control trial in 2020 for use of COVID19 Convalescent Plasma(CCP) in mild to moderate COVID 19 patients and Blood Centre ,MGUMST was approved trial site among first 21 such centres of India.
  • Blood Centre MGUMST actively participating in Haemovigilance Program of India (HvPI), Ministry of Health and family Welfare,GoI with a dedicated hemovigilance Nurse.
  • Blood Center currently in process for International certification of Fundamental Standards with American Association of Blood Bank(AABB), first few in Asia.
  • Blood Centre provides Blood/Components for thalassemia and HIV patients without service charges and without donation.

State-of-the Art Equipment availability like

  • Advance immunohematology
  • Apheresis Room for Plateletpheresis and Plasmapheresis
  • Haemovigilance Room for effective monitoring of transfusion practices
  • Luminex based testing in Transplant Immunology (HLA)Lab
  • Flowcytometry Lab for Immunophenotyping, T & B Cell crossmatch for solid organ transplant
  • Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Lab for high resolution typing and molecular testing
  • Peripheral Blood Stem Cell room for harvesting of Granulocytes and Haematopoeitic Stem cells for cancer patient and Bone marrow transplant
  • Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Lab for high resolution typing and molecular testing
  • Nucleic Acid Test ( NAT ) for detection of transfusion transmitted infections in window period Luminex based testing in Transplant Immunology (HLA)Lab
  • Irradiation room

Evidence of Success of Advance Transfusion Services

Therapeutic

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Patient of Criggler Najjar Syndrome

BloodDonation

Voluntary Blood Donation Camp By CRPF Jawans