Department of Transfusion Medicine
The Department of Transfusion Medicine at the Post Graduate Institute of Child Health is a state-of-the-art blood centre providing 24x7 blood component and apheresis requirements for children admitted at the institute.
Vision of the department
- To collect blood and apheresis components from voluntary blood donors and promote safe blood donation practices.
- To ensure blood donor safety and promote the welfare of voluntary blood donors.
- To provide all types of blood components which are
- Safe
- Timely delivered
- Best quality
- To provide clinical services of safe and effective therapeutic apheresis and cell therapy product collections (including hematopoietic progenitor stem cells)
- To provide basic and advanced training to transfusion medicine physicians, clinicians and paramedical staff in modern blood banking and rational use of blood products.
- To conduct basic and clinical research in transfusion medicine and cell therapy, focusing on neonatal and pediatric transfusions.
