THINGS TO CONSIDER WHILE DONATING BLOOD

milind

CRITERIA FOR BLOOD DONATION:

Conditions for donation of blood:

(1) General – No person shall donate blood and no blood bank shall draw blood from a person, more than once in three months. The donor shall be in good health, mentally alert and physically fit and shall not be inmates of jail, persons having multiple sex partners and drug-addicts. The donors shall fulfil the following requirements,
namely: - (a) The donor shall be in the age group of 18 to 60 years;
               (b) The donor shall not be less than 45 kilograms;
               (c) Temperature and pulse of the donor shall be normal;
               (d) The systolic and diastolic blood pressure are within normal limits without medication;
               (e) Haemoglobin which shall not be less than 12.5 grams;
               (f) The donor shall be free from acute respiratory diseases;
               (g) The donor shall be free from any skin diseases at the site of phlebotomy;
               (h) The donor shall be free from any disease transmissible by blood transfusion, insofar as can be determined by history and examination indicated above;
               (i) The arms and forearms of the donor shall be free from skin punctures or scars indicative of professional blood donors or addiction of self injected narcotics.

(2) Additional qualifications of donor – No person shall donate blood, and no blood bank shall draw blood from a donor, in the conditions mentioned in column (1) of the Table given below before the expiry of the period of deferment mentioned in the column (2) of the said Table ( See the below picture 001)


(3) No person shall donate blood and no blood bank shall draw blood from a person, suffering from any of the diseases mentioned below, namely:–
          (a) Cancer
          (b) Heart disease
          (c) Unexplained weight loss
          (d) Diabetes-controlled on insulin
          (f) Hepatitis infection
          (g) Chronic nephritis
          (h) Signs and symptoms, suggestive of AIDS
          (i) Liver diseases
          (j) Tuberculosis
          (k) Polycythemia Vera.
          (l) Asthma
         (m) Epilepsy
         (n) Leprosy
         (o) Schizophrenia
         (p) Endocrine disorders

Buddha480

Useful

vikpan1133

Useful info thanks for sahring

milind

vikpan1133 29-5-2018 10:54 AM
Useful info thanks for sahring

Your Welcome. Happy to share.

wangwilly

Evidently there's so many criteria, I just know point a and b. Thanks for the info.