Donor defferal crietria-one year study at a tertiary care hospital

Abstract

: Blood Transfusion Services is vital part of health care system which saves many lives annually across the globe. Shortage of blood donors is a problem faced by all the blood banks. Many donors are deferred either due to temporary or permanent causes which differ across the blood banks.: The study was carried out on 1646 donors which came to the blood bank.: Total 194 donors were deferred out of 1646 registered donors due to different reasons, anaemia followed by intake of medicines were found to be most common causes of deferral and males were deferred more as compared to the females.: The donor deferral rate in the present study was 11.78 with anaemia as the most common cause of deferral followed by intake of medicines. The temporarily deferred donors need to be closely followed up to ensure their contribution in the blood banks after the treatment of their causes.