Compliance Audit on Functioning of Govt Blood Banks in West Bengal

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AuthorCAG of India
Date Accessioned2024-07-24T13:30:08Z
Date Available2024-07-24T13:30:08Z
Date of Publication04-07-2016
AbstractThe functioning of blood banks in the State has scope for improvement in many aspects. There is an emergent need for setting up more blood banks in the State and for enhancing the capacity of the existing ones to bridge the gap between requirement and actual supply. Moreover, the blood bank network was not distributed evenly among the districts with blood bank/ BSUs not being available in rural areas. It was also a matter of serious concern that 53 out of 58 blood banks managed by the State Government do not have valid licenses. The basic tenet of providing safe blood, blood components and blood products was also compromised due to the absence of quality assurance mechanism in most blood banks. Quality aspect was further undermined by irregular supply of Elisa Reader, cross matching of blood by staff other than Medical Officers, ineffective calibration of equipment, absence of AMCs, etc. Performance of the blood banks as regards component separation was sub-optimal. There were instances of losses/ wastages of whole blood units, blood bags, test kits and reagents due to deficient inventory management. There were significant deficiencies in the blood bank automation software leading to possibility of pilferage of bloods/ kits. In the absence of interconnectivity among blood banks, available blood stocks in one blood bank could not be utilised by others in need, leading to wastage of stock. Deficient maintenance of records on the particulars of sero-reactive donors leaves possibilities of carriers of such deadly viruses remaining unaware and untreated. Non-compliance of the rules and inadequate monitoring by Drug Inspectors resulted in several deficiencies. Human resources management also calls for attention as 32 per cent Medical Officers and 20 per cent Medical Technologists attached to 17 test-checked blood banks did not have training on blood transfusion. Department of Transfusion Medicine was not established in nine Government MCHs of the State, neither was the separate cadre for Blood Transfusion Service created.
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LanguageEnglish
PublisherCAG of India
SeriesWest Bengal (General and Social Sector); 2 of 2015
TitleCompliance Audit on Functioning of Govt Blood Banks in West Bengal
Item TypeAudit Report
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