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 | What exactly happens during blood-donation?
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|  Giving blood is a
very simple and straight forward process. On arrival at a blood drive, you will
be asked to fill a few details on a donor form. Your medical history will be
taken by a medical personnel in an area which provides adequate privacy. We
routinely take a small drop of blood to ensure that you aren't anemic. After you
pass this simple medical screening process, you will be escorted to a blood
donation area. The actual blood donation takes about 10 minutes followed by a
little rest and refreshments. |
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| What should I eat after blood
donation? |
|  Drink some
liquid like tea, cold drink, juice, etc. to replenish fluid and eat some snacks.
All this will be available for you at the blood donation site. |
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| What does a blood bank do? |
| It collects blood, processes it in its
components, tests for any possible disease, stores blood components at optimum
temperature and gives these to the needy patients after cross
matching. |
| What happens to blood I donate? |
| Your blood goes to a modern blood bank -
Prathama Blood Center. Within 6 hours of Blood collection its processing starts
at Prathama Blood Centre. It is separated into components viz. Red Cells, White
Cells, Plasma & Platelets. These Blood components are made available to
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Hospitals, Govt. Hospitals, Nursing Homes.
Medical setups, which do not have blood storage facilities, send their samples
to us for cross matching following which blood is sent to them directly. All
this is to ensure fastest response to the patient’s need. This is how each time you donate blood you
save up to 4 lives. |
| Why blood components? |
| In modern medicine there is no room for whole
blood. Developed countries have switched over to blood components for more than
20 years. Unfortunately in India still 95% of the blood is used as whole blood.
By making blood components, all the useful parts of blood can be used. In whole
blood, platelets die and clotting factors become ineffective and the patient
receives unwanted and ineffective components. |
| What all things you test my blood
for? |
|  Automatic
and highly sensitive Robotic blood testing set up is used to test each and every
unit of blood for HIV Virus (AIDS), Hepatitis B & C virus (Jaundice) Malaria
Parasite, Syphilis and also blood groups. Bar Code systems, fully integrated
computer network, real time information processing makes our lab only of its
kind in India. This lab ensures highest level of blood safety to each unit of
blood. Thanks to robotic machines the lab technicians also have minimal contact
with the blood, which ensures their safety from blood transmitted disease.
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| Who sustains cost of operations of eblood
donors Blood Centre? |
| e-blood Donors Centre is run on a “ Not for
Profit” but self sustaining basis. There is a service charge levied on blood
that is distributed. This service charge is essential for meeting cost of raw
material, testing, processing, providing for depreciation and administration
expenses. This will also give Prathama an opportunity to undertake fundamental
research in the field of transfusion medicine. Meanwhile to take care of people
from poor economic status, 50 % of blood components which go to municipal
corporation hospitals are free or at reduced service charges. Prathama is
committed to up lift the standards of blood banking and in turn the quality of
Life of the common man in our society. |
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| Care that a donor should take after donating
blood. |
|  | Eat and Drinks something before
leaving | | Drink more liquids than
usual in next 4 hours | | Avoid consuming alcohol until you have eating
something | | Don't smoke for next 30
minutes | | Avoid climbing steps
for next 30 minutes | | If there is bleeding from the phlebotomy
site, raise the arm and apply pressure | | If fainting or dizziness occurs, either lie
down or site with the head between the knees | | Resume all normal activities if no symptoms
occur | | Remove bandage next
day |
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