Blood Storage Unit

Yes. Every unit comes from licensed blood banks and is tested for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis and malaria before storage. Before transfusion, we additionally cross-match the specific unit against your blood sample to confirm compatibility. Transfusions are monitored by nursing staff throughout.

Blood itself is never sold — charges are nominal processing fees covering testing, cross-matching, storage and consumables, as per government norms. As a charitable hospital, our processing charges are kept minimal, and scheme patients are covered per their entitlement.

Replacement donation refills the stock used for your patient, keeping blood available for the next emergency. It is a request, not a precondition for treatment — emergency patients always receive blood first, and replacement can follow afterwards. Each donation potentially helps three more patients.

Inform us as early as possible — especially before planned surgery. We coordinate with our linked blood banks and donor networks to arrange rare group units in advance. For emergencies, compatible alternatives are used per transfusion medicine protocols while the rare group is sourced.

Healthy adults aged 18–65, weighing at least 50 kg, with haemoglobin in the acceptable range. You should not donate if you have fever, recent major illness, certain medications, or recent tattoos/piercings (within months). Our staff screen every donor before donation — the whole process takes about 30 minutes.