Taking the matter of few blood banks charging fees and complaints thereafter, Durg district Collector Umesh Agrawal has instructed to provide blood/platelets free of cost. Earlier, in district administration has ordered to provide free of cost treatment to the dengue positive patients at Government and private hospitals.
Holding a meeting of all Blood Banks based doctors, Durg collector directed to provide free blood/platelets to the dengue positive patients. They should also not insist to the relatives of patients to bring a blood donor for replacement. He said no situation should be created where the relative of the patients have to make rounds for blood donors and get irritated.
Collector said that if the blood banks which are not able to provide free of cost, then for assistance, they should charge bare minimum charges, then the receipt should be submitted with Indian Red Cross Society, District Durg branch in the specified format. If any rules are violated then stern action would be taken against such blood banks for which the blood bank owner would be responsible.
The blood bank operators should make a whatsapp group for better coordination so that the hospitals and doctors can also fine tune for better treatment of the patients and there is no communication gap. The number of donors could also be increased so that adequate blood is available in the blood banks. The college students can be motivated to donate blood.