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Abstract
Introduction
The World Health Organization has advocated that every country should make its own policy for ensuring safe and adequate supply of plasma derived medicinal products through mobilization and usage of locally collected plasma. The National Plasma Policy (NPP) of India was published in 2014 with a dual objective to achieve self sufficiency in the production of plasma derived medicinal products and at the same time to augment the component preparation facilities in India and overall upliftment of blood transfusion services in the country. Thus the present study was done to access the impact of implementation of NPP in our blood bank on the blood transfusion services in our hospital.
Materials and methods
The present study was a retrospective observational study conducted in the department of transfusion medicine of a tertiary care hospital in India involving analysis of data from 1st January 2019 till 31st December 2022. For the purpose of data analysis the time period was divided into 2 periods: (i) Pre-NPP implementation period from 1st January 2019 till 31st December 2020; (ii) Post-NPP period from 1st January 2021 till 31st December 2022. The following parameters were compared for the two periods: (i) component preparation rate; (ii) percentage of component therapy; (iii) total number of FFP transferred to plasma fractionation centers; (iv) total amount of exchange amount generated in lieu of transferred FFP to plasma fractionation centers.
Results
The component preparation rate after NPP implementation was significantly higher as compared to the pre NPP implementation period (93.81% vs 56.70%; p = 0.007). The percentage of component therapy in the patients was also significantly higher as compared to the pre-NPP implementation period (97.9% vs 73.6%; p = 0.005). The total amount of exchange amount generation in Indian rupee (INR) after NPP implementation was INR 1419462 (15835€) while it was INR 636898 (7105€) in the pre NPP implementation period. This amount was utilized for procurement of various blood bank equipment, in addition 2 lab technicians were also hired for the blood bank.
Conclusions
The implementation of NPP resulted in upliftment of blood transfusion services in our hospital. Other low and middle income countries can benefit from implementation of similar plasma policy in their countries.
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Transfusion Clinique et Biologique, the official journal of the French Society of Blood Transfusion (SFTS):
- an aid to training, at a European level
- the only French journal indexed in the hematology and immunology sections of Current Contents
Transfusion Clinique et Biologique spans fundamental research and everyday practice, with articles coming from both sides. Articles, reviews, case reports, letters to the editor and editorials are published in 4 editions a year, in French or in English, covering all scientific and medical aspects of transfusion: immunology, hematology, infectious diseases, genetics, molecular biology, etc. And finally, a convivial cross-disciplinary section on training and information offers practical updates.
Readership:
"Transfusers" are many and various: anesthetists, biologists, hematologists, and blood-bank, ICU and mobile emergency specialists...
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