Nominated RBCs awaiting funds promised by Sindh govt
By Mukhtar Alam KARACHI: While a dearth of safe blood provision to patients has always been a source of concern, three blood banks of Karachi nominated for upgradation as regional blood centres (RBC), under the national safe blood transfusion programme, are waiting for the release of funds promised by the Sindh government for making them functional, it emerged recently. Sources privy to safe blood initiatives in the country shared that three blood banks functioning at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) were designated by the authorities for raising their status as RBCs, under the second phase projects of the government’s safe blood transfusion scheme over four years back. “Had these proposed RBCs been allowed to expand their services on a priority basis for other selective hospital-based blood banks in the city the deserving population including the thalassemia children would have seen free ...