Services : Blood Bank is well equipped with all the modern equipments like Fully automated blood
grouping and antibody screening machine, Column Agglutination [Gel-technology], Fully Automatic ELISA
Machine, Apheresis machines, Blood Irradiator, Fully Automatic Component Separation Machine like: Optipress
and TACE-II for leukoreduction of components which prevents the blood transfusion reactions.
Apheresis procedures include plateletpheresis and therapeutic Apheresis and peripheral blood Stem Cell
collection.
Clinical Services :
Blood Bank collects blood from voluntary and
replacement donors in the hospital and outside
hospital by arranging the outdoor blood donation
camps, collecting 15,000 blood bags per year.
Blood grouping of the donors and patients is done
and blood is supplied to the patients after crossmatching
with latest technology.
Academic Services :
The department is involved in training programme
for Resident Doctors and Lab Technicians. It is also
involved in teaching programme of M.L.T. Students.
M.D. (Transfusion Medicine) students from the B.J.
Medical College as well as doctors and technicians
from all over Gujarat come for training of
Component Separation and Apheresis procedures.