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Welcome to AIIMS Kalyani Department of Transfusion Medicine & Blood Bank |

Department of Transfusion Medicine & Blood Bank

About the Department:

Department of Transfusion Medicine & Blood Centre became functional from Dec 2023.
Since its inception, the Department provides state-of-the-art transfusion services. The salient features of Blood Centre at AIIMS Kalyani are:

  • Complete automation: Various procedures like blood component separation, testing of infectious markers, blood grouping, antibody screening and various other pre-transfusion tests are performed on complete automated platforms which will ensure high quality blood components leaving very little scope for manual errors.
  • Software Integration: The entire chain of events from donor registration, blood donation, apheresis donation, component separation, pre-transfusion testing, receiving blood requisitions and issuing blood components are based on barcode enabled LIS (Laboratory integrated system) software.
  • Transfusion Safety: Blood Centre at AIIMS Kalyani is among the few Blood Centres in India to provide NAT tested blood in addition to the routine screening tests.
  • Blood Components: All type of blood components (Packed red blood cells, Fresh frozen plasma, platelet concentrate, etc.) are available at Blood Centre AIIMS Kalyani round the clock.