Blood transfusion and its risk assessment: are we safe?
This post originally appeared on our partner blog Pharma Sastra at http://pharmasastra.blogspot.in/2016/06/blood-transfusion-and-its-risk.html 14 th June , WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY, a campaign marked by WHO (World Health Organization), established in 2004 in order to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood. World Blood Donor Day celebration brings a precious opportunity to all donors for celebrating it on national and global level as to commemorate the birthday anniversary of KARL LANDSTEINER (a great scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his great discovery of the ABO blood group system). This year the theme of the day was “ Blood connects us all ”. And we should not forget that blood can also connect to us via a disease as well. This week itself, lots of blood donation program has been conducted by various organizations. But very less such organization take ...