The blood gives a new life to someone and at the
same time wrong blood will lead to a critical situation, so there are many
chances for misconception about giving and receiving blood.
The common worries for blood recipients and even
donors are whether the blood is transported to the hospitals or not. But in
reality, bloods are collected and safely supplied to the hospitals and blood centres.
Before performing a blood transfusion, blood is carefully screened and certified
that it’s safe.
Donor
screening stage:
This is the first step it takes place in all the
hospitals or blood centres. It is completely like a face-to –face question
session based on your health. The questionnaire asks donor about a health
condition, continuing any treatments, and other medical related question. This
process is mainly for checking your eligibility to donate blood. They will
check your body temperature, blood pressure, weights, age, height, and check
your haemoglobin levels. After completing this stage, only eligible donors can
give blood.
Blood Testing stage:
After receiving blood from donors, it is sent to the
lab for testing process. This process is an important one because through this
the lab technicians find out the various infections or diseases like hepatitis B and C, leukaemia, AIDS/HIV, and many dangerous
diseases. So this helps to avoid the wrong blood transfusion to the patients.
If any blood results positive for any of this disease, lab technician disposes
the blood and inform the donor about the test.
The above screening processes help us
to ensure that we have a safe blood supply. Now, the receiver can understand
that the blood came from a right donor.
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