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Blood supply in India does not meet demand

The global health community needs to rethink its estimation of how much blood a country needs to match demand, according to a study published today in The Lancet Haematology. For India, there is much to take away from the findings which, for the first time, estimate the gap between blood supply and demand worldwide.  “An …

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Haemophiliacs struggle in silence in India

Yesterday marked World Haemophilia Day, an opportunity to raise awareness of the condition and its largely hidden footprint in India. For India’s many haemophiliacs, suffering is often in silence.  Haemophilia is a genetic condition which means sufferers do not have enough clotting factor. This  refers to a group of proteins in the blood which works …

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Parents fight back against thalassemia benefit cuts

Parents of children affected with thalassemia in Telangana have hit back at a new policy reducing health benefits for families battling  the disease. Thalassemia is a genetically inherited blood disorder. With between 10,000 and 12,000 children are born with the disease every year, India is believed to be home to forty million people who l …

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How Facebook is trying to help India’s blood donor shortage

Facebook is launching a way of mobilising its quarter of a billion Indians users to become blood donors.   A new feature has been unveiled on the social networking site. It aims to connect blood donors with patients, hospitals and blood banks. Rollout began on October 1, to coincide with the country’s National Blood Donor …

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Gujarat: Leading the fight against thalassemia

Gujarat is expanding a number of prevention policies with the aim of making the state thalassemia free. Foremost among the proposed policies is the intention to make thalassemia testing mandatory for everyone, with a focus on testing women before they give birth. India is considered to be the world’s capital for thalassemia cases, with 10,000 …

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Jammu and Kashmir: Poor practices in blood banks a threat to public safety

Infected blood is responsible for a colossal hepatitis epidemic in Jammu and Kashmir. This is according to an association representing many of the state’s doctors. According to Dr Nisar ul Hassan of the Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK), the problem is down to outmoded and inaccurate testing technology used by blood banks in J&K All 31 blood …

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Blood spilled, a waste of donations

India has wasted 2.8 million (28 lakh) units of blood over the last five years. This is despite an annual shortfall of three million (30 lakh) units and the grim reality that India lacks the necessary amount of blood to provide for the quotas required by hospitals.  With this in mind, wastage of what amounts …

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Bad blood: India’s trouble with transfusions and HIV

Damning figures publicised at the beginning of December have laid bare the extent of India’s problem with HIV transmission through faulty blood transfusions – believed to have caused 14,474 cases over the last seven years. The information was obtained by IndiaSpend through a series of right to information (RTI) requests. It was published as their …

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