Objectives

1. Promote voluntary blood donation.
2. Increase appropriate use of blood/ blood components.
3. Ensure quality of blood and blood banking services.
4. Support blood storage centres/ reorganize blood transfusion services in the remote areas.

Under Blood safety, various activities are taken up by the State for ensuring access to safe Blood and Blood products. Odisha is implementing various activities to address issues of Blood collection and quality management practices. It is mandatory that each unit of blood is tested for Transfusion Transmitted Infection.

During the NACP state aimed to reduce transmission of HIV infection through blood and blood products to less than 0.1% from 0.3%.

Adequate quantity of safe blood will be provided especially at emergency obstetric centres, trauma centres and surgical units and in rural areas by enhancing the annual voluntary blood collection by increasing the number of voluntary blood donation camps and number of blood collection per camp.