More than 80 districts in the country do not have a blood bank, the government said on Friday even as it noted that most of these districts have been newly crafted.
There is no shortage of blood banks in the country and there are a total of 2,708 blood banks in the country. There are 80 districts in the country that do not have a blood bank.Shripad Yesso Naik, Goa’s Minister of State for Yoga and Traditional Medicine
The 80 districts which do not have blood banks fall in states and UTs like Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Manipur.
He said that National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC) had on 22 December 2015 issued an order instructing blood banks to put their stock availability status online on National Health Portal.
This had been done to ease the access of blood for patients and to increase transparency by display of stocks of blood and blood components in public domain.
Naik said that National Health Portal provides platform for display of stock status of blood in blood banks.
All the National AIDS Control Organization-supported blood banks in the country have been linked to the National Health Portal.Shripad Yesso Naik, Goa’s Minister of State for Yoga and Traditional Medicine
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