One in 20 blood donations in Sindh infected with TTIs
SBTA data shows 5.7pc of blood donations in 2025 detected reactive for at least one infection By Mukhtar Alam KARACHI: Thousands of donated blood units in Sindh were discarded in 2025 after screening detected transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs), highlighting continuing public health challenges and gaps in safe donor recruitment, this emerged lately. Data compiled from four regional blood centres (RBCs) and blood banks registered with the Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA) show that 47,375 blood units were rejected after testing positive for infections such as HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis and malaria. The figures indicate that 5.7 per cent of the 833,050 blood donations screened during the year were found reactive for at least one infection, meaning roughly one in every 20 donated blood units could not be used for transfusion. According to SBTA records, 209 licensed blood banks across Sindh collectively received 932,966 donors in 2025 -- 920,585 ma...