Blood Centre was started in year 1990 with Whole Human blood license & in year 2000 started component section
Presently it is fully licensed for blood & blood products. Our blood collection is more than 18000 units & issued units is more than 35000 blood & blood product to the needy patients in & around Belagavi.
We do components .i.e. Packed Red Blood Cell Concentrate. Human Platelets Concentrate, Fresh Frozen Plasma, Cryoprecipitate. Also we do regular Single Donor Platelets (SDP) & Therapeutic Plasmapheresis.
In May we have started Thalassemia Day Care Centre, we have 240 thalassemia patients registered & planning for Bone Marrow Transplantation for, these patients.
Also, we have 132 cases of Hemophilia patients to whom we provide blood & blood product free of cost. Our Voluntary collection comes around 95 %, remaining is a replacement. Blood Bank is catering whole north Karnataka, South Maharashtra & Goa.
CME in transfusion medicine is done here for last six years regularly.

Also we participate in external Quality Control Assessment Scheme as below:

• Blood Bank External Quality Assessment Scheme Jaipur-0244.
• External Quality Assessment Scheme NIMHANS-KA61, BBNo-3.
• Haemovigilance Programme of India for adverse transfusion reaction.
• We conduct 110 to 120 Voluntary Blood Donation Camps every year.
• External Quality Assessment Scheme CMC Vellore-T-209.

The aim of the blood bank is to give safe blood to the needy patients.

It starts with selection of blood donors, screening of the donors is done thoroughly

• Blood grouping is done by automatic machines that is Gel technology.
• Screening of the blood sample is done by chemiluminescence method
• The tests done are HIV(1&2), HBsAg, HCV, VDRL & Malaria Parasites, VDRL as per FDI guidelines.
• Antibody screening 3 cell panel is done here regularly if required go for higher cell panel (11 cell Panel) & ABO anti body
• screening also done here.
• Granulocytes separation & stem cell therapy will be started shortly.
• For Thalassemia 42 patients has undergone Bone Marrow Transplantation from this centre