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The Ministry of Health is advising all private hospitals to establish a bank at their institutions, in an effort to ease the long process of requesting blood from the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS).According to Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, while the NBTS will provide the private hospitals with the blood they need, accountability will play a major role in this process.The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently established its own bank. They no longer need to make a direct request every time a patient needs blood.鈥淪o they should never have any need to make requests from the NBTS. They would have to account for the blood given to them so every day an accounting is done and the blood is replaced that they use,鈥� Minister Ramsammy explained.If the same practice is adopted by the private health institutions, then according to Minister Ramsammy, they also would not be required to make any request from the blood bank.鈥淭hey can encourage persons to donate and manage their own banks. They have to ensure that the infrastructure is in place,Wholesale China Jerseys, such as a blood refrigerator.鈥漈he Health Minister said that the private institutions cannot have a refrigerator for 10 units of blood when they request 100 units. So if your daily volume is 20 units, then you must have space for thirty units of blood.鈥滻f this is done, then according to Minister Ramsammy, the problems many persons encounter in getting blood on a daily basis would be reduced, as the long procedure for requesting blood from the bank would no longer exist.鈥淭hey have to account for it so as to ensure that there won鈥檛 be any wastage. A fee would have to be paid for the screening of the blood that the private hospitals would request.鈥漌orkers from the NBTS would visit the private health institutions on a daily basis and account for the amount of blood they used.However, the NBTS would only charge the private hospitals for the blood that they utilize.鈥淪o we are trying to ensure greater efficiency to provide our people with a better service.鈥� |
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