In a bid to avoid wastage of blood and multiple donor exposure during blood transfusion, the state health department has made it mandatory for blood banks across the state to install sterile connecting devices for aliquots of whole blood bags, state health department officials said on Thursday. A state health ministry official on condition of anonymity said, “Sterile connecting devices …
The Indian Council of Medical Research on Wednesday successfully conducted a trial run of delivery of blood bags by drones under its iDrone initiative. The trial run, as part of a pathbreaking validation study, has been undertaken for the first time in the country by the ICMR; Lady Hardinge Medical College ; Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida; and …
