Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Donor Recruitment Strategies Towards Improving Availability Of Blood Product In Nigerian Tertiary Health Institution

Introduction/Objective Over the years, many strategies has been put in place to improve blood donations and overcome socio-cultural myths and fear that has held groups of people from voluntary blood donation in Nigeria and other subsahara africa countries. Among these are adequate education, approaches through religious group leaders, non-monetary incentives like giving them special awards during world blood donor day. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and adequacy of our blood donor recruitment and retention strategies in improving availability of blood product in our institution Methods For this cross sectional retrospective study, Data including blood donation and break down of pattern of donations, request for blood products, monthly units of blood issued gotten from our 5 year Transfusion services records were searched, same entered into Microsoft Excel and the were analysed Results Our voluntary non-renumerated blood donation steadily increased from 4.55 in 2015 to 33.3% in 2019, this represent a five fold increase in our voluntary donor recruitment within the period under review. However overall blood donation rate remained steady at approximately 12000 units per annum over this period of time. There is an increase in request rate, on the average the rate of blood request was 1214 units per month in 2015, but in 2018 this has increased to an average of 1738 units per month and by 2019 average rate of request was 2300 units per month. Out of this huge request only 67.9% of them was met, implying a huge deficit in our blood availability despite increasing pool of voluntary blood donor. Conclusion Findings in this study revealed a steady increase in the pool of voluntary blood donor which did not reflect in our overall blood availability. This might be due to concurrent decrease in our family replacement donor. This finding also suggests that even though our current strategy used in donor recruitment and retention might seems effective, they are still not adequat, as there is no commensurate rise in blood donation to match the progressive increase in blood demand. In the face of this inadequacy it might be expedient to also audit the blood ordering pattern in our centre in order to reduce wastage while we continue to work towards increasing the voluntary blood donor base.

Hemo Economicus

This chapter draws on ethnographic research in Kolkata and Delhi. It follows voluntary blood donor organizations seeking to convey to the janata (people) that the body produces more blood than it needs and that a portion of this excess blood can be given without the body losing anything. This is an insight at odds with conventional understandings of blood excorporation in the region as involving irrecuperable loss, understandings that inform continuing perceptions of blood donation as a sacrificial gesture. To give blood without risking irrecuperable loss would seem to fundamentally undercut the gesture of blood donation as sacrifice. An imagination of blood as excess and surplus thus involves the antisacrificial redescription of blood donation.

Program Pemberdayaan Masyarakat non Produktif tentang pentingnya Manfaat mengenal dan menjadi Donor Darah di Unit Tranfusi Darah PMI Kota Surabaya

Blood transfusion service is a health care effort that utilizes human blood as a basic ingredient with humanitarian purposes and not for commercial purposes. Blood transfusion services as one of the health efforts in order to cure disease and health recovery desperately require the availability of blood or adequate blood components, safe, accessible and affordable by the community. Each blood transfusion unit has a responsibility to meet the availability of blood in its working area. Blood availability is highly dependent on the willingness and awareness of people to donate their blood voluntarily and regularly. To achieve this, blood transfusion units need to conduct donor recruitment activities which include socialization efforts and campaign of voluntary blood donor, donor deployment and donor preservation. The need for blood is increasing in this world where 1 patient from 7 patients who are hospitalized requires a blood transfusion. Imbalance between blood supply and blood needs is increasing in the world. Currently only in 62 countries, blood supplies of 100% are derived from voluntary blood donors and 40 other countries still depend on family darai donors and paid blood donors. From the results of location analysis and info from blood transfusion Unit RS, Dr. Setomo, Surabaya PMI about the problems of lack of blood stocks at a certain moment, then make us perform a lack of public awareness about the blood Donor This, thereby giving our infiration to give intervention, counseling, convey that being a blood Donor can increase the stamina and occurrence of new erythrocytes, which can facilitate blood circulation and make the body healthier. Plan, create a community Web Site that is interested in becoming a voluntary blood Donor, so that the community is moved to become a voluntary blood Donor, of course not be separated must fulfill the requirements that the blood donation is worthy as Blood and healthy Donor, appropriate Perturan. Install Bener on a specific place, make a bag, T-shirt, key toy, a zipper box, and other knacks that can be used as the community Logo voluntary blood donor, in hopes of increasing the necessary blood stocks society. From the new results we perform to attract voluntary blood donors. Through the appeal to come to the counseling and to share Leaflet only at this early stage, there have been obtained result of increased blood stock from the results of voluntary blood donation after Community service. Obtained significant results, where there is an increase in the amount of blood in PMI, after the implementation of blood donation. There is an increase in blood stocks at that time as much as 40-50%, from the results of community devotion.

Blood transfusion transmitted infectious diseases (HIV, HBV, HCV, Syphilis and Malaria) among the voluntary blood donors in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Prevalence of five important blood transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases (HIV, HBV, HCV, Syphilis, and Malaria) were studied among the voluntary blood donors in Dhaka. Out of 1500 donors, positive infections was identified in 99 of cases and rest of the donors were screened negative. Male voluntary blood donor were 82% and only 18% were female. About 53.53% male infectious blood donor had HBV infection whereas, 26.26% female had HBV. The difference was significant (P < 0.05). In age group of 18-24 years, 36% of the donor had HBV infection and HCV was found positive in 04.04% of student. Among the students, HBV was positive in 44%. Only 01.01% of teacher was HIV positive. Malaria infection was positive only among the business man (01.01%). The positive cases (01.01%) with TPHA found among the students, teacher and worker and the difference was significant (P<0.05). 40.40% of the volunteer blood donors were illiterate and 24.24% donor had Master degree and 8% HSC passed.Bangladesh J. Zool. 42(1): 77-84, 2014