The State Government will establish blood banks in 13 districts within one month. Health and Family Welfare Minister Amar Agrawal on Wednesday issued directives to the officers of the Health Department to complete necessary preparations in this regard.
At a review meeting held here at Mantralaya, Agrawal said that blood banks will be established by next month in Jashpur, Narayanpur, Bijapur, Kondagaon, Sukma, Balrampur, Surajpur, Janjgir-Champa, Mungeli Bemetra, Balod, Gariaband and Baloda Bazar. He said that to deal with emergency and complicated cases as many as 75 First Referral Unit (FRU) have been established in all district hospitals, three civil hospitals and 45 community health centers of the State.Teams of trained doctors have been appointed in these units for Caesarean operations and other emergency cases. To provide blood in critical cases of excessive bleeding of pregnant ladies during labour, blood storage banks are being established in the FRUs.The officers said that presently there are 16 blood banks in the State including two each at Raipur and Bilaspur, one each at Raigarh, Dhamtari, Mahasamund, Durg, South Bastar (Dantewada), Bastar (Jagdalpur), Surguja, Koriya, Korba, North Bastar (Kanker), Kabirdham (Kawardha) and Rajnandgaon district hospital.They said that presently blood storage facility is available only in 35 FRUs and the facility will be started in remaining 40 units in the next week. All the arrangements like training of doctors and lab technicians besides equipments like microscope, refrigerator etc have been made except license which will be completed within a week, the officers claimed.