To set up Centre of Excellence in transfusion medicine
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Government of West Bengal to formalise its support to set up a state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence in Transfusion Medicine in Kolkata. Government of India has approved this important initiative with an outlay of approximately Rs 200 crores towards equipment, manpower and running costs. The land for this initiative will be provided free of cost by the state government. The move intends to strengthen the blood transfusion services in the state and the surrounding region. RK Vats, Additional Secretary (Health) and Anil Verma, Principal Secretary Health, Government of West Bengal, signed the MoU on behalf of their respective ministries.
Metro Blood Bank Project is conceived to be a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to set up state-of-the-art Centres of Excellence in transfusion medicine in the four metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. These centres are high volume blood collection centres where there is state-of-the-art technology in transfusion medicine for component separation, processing of blood and quality systems. Facilities for screening of collected blood by NAT would be made available at these centres and also extended to the other blood banks of the state.
Approval of Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare has been accorded for the first phase, wherein these facilities are to come up in Chennai and Kolkata. National Blood Transfusion Council under National AIDS Control Organization will be the implementing division of the Ministry for this project. The MoU for setting up the Metro Blood Bank in Chennai has already been signed on June 14, 2016.
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