Abstract
Introduction: Voluntary blood donation is undoubtedly, the greatest service to mankind as it can save many precious lives every single day.
One single blood donation can help many patients as blood is usually segregated into red blood cells (RBC’s), Platelets, white blood cells (WBC’s) and Plasma, and transfused according to the requirement.
Material and Methods: The present study was undertaken in the Department of Blood Bank, retrospectively from 2011 to 2017. The study was conducted on both voluntary and replacement blood donors who came to our blood bank and voluntary blood donation camps in and around Chamba. All the blood donors, donating blood in the blood bank were considered as the study population.
Results: In our study, comparison of voluntary donors and replacement donors was done. There were 1261voluntary donors (21 %), where as there were 4687 replacement blood donors (79 % ) in our study. On the whole, there were 5676 male donors, forming 95 % and 272 female donors (5 %) in our study.
Discussion: As per our study, the total number of replacement donors is much higher (4687, 79 %), than voluntary donors (1261, 21 %). From the present study, it was seen that in replacement blood donation, there were only 61 females (1 %), in comparison to 4626 male donors (99 %). Therefore, the number of replacement female donors is significantly low in our blood bank. The number of female gender in voluntary donation (211, 17 %) was found to be much greater than in replacement donation (61, 1 %) in our study.
Conclusion: From our study, we concluded that the percentage of voluntary donors is quite low, in comparison to replacement blood donors. Ideally, there should be 100 % voluntary blood donation, but in practical terms, it is not quite possible, especially in rural tertiary care centre like ours, where there is complete lack of awareness about health and voluntary type of blood donation.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Ishan Arora
Department of Community Medicine, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Govt. Medical College, Chamba (H.P), India
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i8.14
