Research
Notification Rate and Counseling for Seropositive Donors in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Amritsar (Punjab), India
Introduction: Screening for Transfusion transmitted infections (TTIΓ’β¬β’s) is done to provide safe blood. Very often donors are found to be seropositive for one or more of the TTIΓ’β¬β’s. The present study was undertaken in a blood bank of a tertiary care hospital to determine the response rate of the blood donors after they were notified about their reactive status. Materials and Methods: The one year observational study was done in a prospective manner from January 2013 Γ’β¬β December 2013 taking in account of all the registered donors coming to the blood bank after notification.
