Abstract

Background: In current medical and surgical practice, a blood transfusion can be a vital, life-saving procedure. Healthy donor recruitment and retention is a challenge that faces the health industry today. Hence studying the profile of blood donors will help to identify the population which could be targeted to increase the pool of blood donors. It is also essential that the blood collection process does not harm either the donor or the recipient. This is achieved by having donor deferral criteria. Methodology: Data was collected from the records maintained by the blood bank. Study participants included all those who donated blood between 1st January 2010 and 31st December 2012. Result: A majority of the donors were under the age of 25 (38.5 %), followed by those aged 26-35(37.60%). Males dominated the donor population (93.8%) with females making up the numbers with 6.2%. In total (3.72 %) were found unfit for donation, donors were found unfit to donate for various reasons, the majority ( 83.93%), were deferred for temporary reasons, and a smaller subset (16.07%) were permanently deferred. Conclusion 1) Total deferral during the study period was 3.72 % 2) Most common reasons for deferral were low Hemoglobin (31.95%), under weight (25.16 %), high blood pressure (13.4 %) and history of antibiotic/medication use (6.88%). 3) Majority of them (83.93%) was being deferred for temporary reasons.

Highlights

  • In current medical and surgical practice, a blood transfusion can be a vital, life-saving procedure

  • The aim of this study was to determine the profile of donors who presented themselves at a tertiary care hospital in Rajkot Gujarat, India and to identify sections of the population which could be targeted to increase the pool of voluntary blood donors as well as to ascertain the reasons for blood donation deferral among these donors

  • In total one thousand and eighty nine (3.72 %) were found unfit for donation during the study period were found unfit to donate for various reasons, the majority ( 83.93%), were deferred for temporary reasons, and a smaller subset (16.07%) were permanently deferred

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Introduction

In current medical and surgical practice, a blood transfusion can be a vital, life-saving procedure. Given the ever changing socio-economic environment and human factors involved, healthy donor recruitment and retention is a challenge that faces the health industry today[6], studying the profile of blood donors will help to identify the population which could be targeted to increase the pool of voluntary blood donors. Studying the profile of blood donors will help to identify the population which could be targeted to increase the pool of blood donors. It is essential that the blood collection process does not harm either the donor or the recipient. This is achieved by having donor deferral criteria.

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