National & International Seminar
National Meet 2015
Date & Venue
January 23, 24 & 25, 2015, Rotary Sadhan, Kolkata
Participants
250 participants from home and abroad
Objectives
National Meet on Total Voluntary Blood Programme Vision 2020
Programme
1. Inaugural Session
2. Scenario of Voluntary Blood Donation – Home and Abroad;
3. Basics;
4. Exploring Methods for Achieving Total Voluntary Blood Programme by 2020;
5. Blood Safety;
6. Dr. Labanya Kumar Ganguli Memorial Session: Blood Borne Pathogens: An Overview on Hepatitis C Virus (Invited Talk);
7. From the Lamp of History (Invited Talk): X – Ray Crystallography A Journey Through Hundred Years;
8. Donor Recruitment – Home & Abroad-I
9. Bhaskar Bhattacharyya Memorial Session: Donor Recruitment Strategy to Achieve Total Voluntary Blood Programme by 2020;
10. Searching Literature (Invited Talk);
11. Gouri Bhadra Memorial Session Long Term Strategies for Donor Recruitment;
12. Communication & Public Relations;
13. Modern Technology in Blood Banking,
14. Donor Recruitment Programme Home & Abroad-II;
15. Dr Sujit Chaudhuri Memorial Session: Disaster Management (Invited Talk);
16. Reducing Blood Need;
17. Panel Discussion (IEC Materials);
18. Blood Donation Camp;
19. Donor Service;
20. Donor Recruitment and Retention;
21. Voluntary Organisation;
22. Valedictory Session.
Recommendations
1. All Stakeholders involved in Voluntary Blood Donation and Blood Transfusion should strive to achieve the goal of reaching 100% Voluntary Non-remunerated Donation of Blood and Blood Components by the year 2020 as set by WHO with the necessary logistic support of concerned authorities.
2. Voluntary Organisations should identify multiple Organised Target Groups with emphasis on Youth in the surroundings of each Blood Bank to ensure keeping the Blood Bank shelves full at all times and build up a strong base of
repeat voluntary donors so as to maintain 100% Blood availability in all Blood Banks.
3. The effective School Education Programme in vogue in West Bengal since 1980 as presented in this Meet be introduced in all states for imparting value education in young minds as a long term strategy to recruit blood donors of
tomorrow.
4. Department of AIDS Control, Govt. of India and the concerned authorities should regularly update their websites with necessary and relevant userfriendly information about National Blood needs, Blood Collection, Statewise break-up, Voluntary Blood Donation, Blood Bank details etc.
5. DAC must ensure stringent implementation of all Policies, Procedures, Legal Aspects and Guidelines in vogue across all the States and Union Territories uniformly from Donor Selection to post transfusion follow up.
6. Voluntary Organisations with adequate experience of working persistently and consistently in the field of promoting Voluntary Blood Donation should be included in the SBTC, NBTC, Resource Groups and other Committees of National and State level to reach the National target of achieving 100% VBD.
7. Blood Safety should be given highly priority through a comprehensive Quality Assurance programme with active involvement of Blood Users, Blood Banks and Donor Organisations for promoting Rational Use of Blood as well as focus on Donor Education Care and Counselling.
8. Voluntary organisations and NGOs involved in promoting VBD should take up structured programmes throughout the year for increasing awareness for eradication of Thalassaemia and other preventable Hereditary Disorders that
requires Lifelong Transfusion of Blood and Blood Products.
9. More number of Small, Medium and Large Voluntary Organisations to be formed at all levels in the country and the existing organisations must be strengthened by supporting and interacting with each other at regular ntervals by using modern technology.
10. Comprehensive National Blood Transfusion Service Act with rules be formulated to replace the present sketchy provisions of Annexures of Rules of Drug and Cosmetics Act of 1940 as amended till date in the matter of Blood Banking Service.
11. The Internationally accepted practice of transfer of blood in bulk from Government Blood Banks to Government Blood Banks on the basis of shortage vs excess by maintaining cold chain be encouraged for better National Service.
National Conference and Workshop 2010
Date & Venue
January 23, 24 & 25, 2010, Indumati Sabha Griha, The National Council of Education Bengal, Kolkata 700032
Participants
203 participants from home and abroad
Objectives
1. To share the strategies of successful voluntary organisations,
2. To evaluate suitable short-term and long-term strategies for the next decade.
Programme
1. Inaugural Session.
2. Overview of Scenario of Blood Donation.
3. Science of Blood through Philately.
4. Motivation and Recruitment I.
5. Motivation and Recruitment II.
6. Long Term Strategies.
7. Blood Bank.
8. Country Presentation.
9. IFBD0.
10. Communication.
11. Public Relations.
12. IEC Materials.
13. Blood Science and Challenges in Recruitment.
14. Training of Motivators.
15. Donor and Safety.
16. Donor Retention and Recognition.
17. Organisation.
18. Modern Technology and Applications.
19. Blood Donations.
20. Valedictory Session.
Recommendations
1. Recommended to the Government of India to release postal stamps on Voluntary Blood Donation periodically.
2. To approach all 1.2 million NGOs of the country with specific reference to 0.4 million NGOs working for community, social service and health to take active part in promoting voluntary blood donation.
3. That NACO should withdraw the recent definition of voluntary blood donation of considering various relative and replacement donors as voluntary donors. Voluntary blood donors must always be altruistic nonremunerated.
4. That average blood collection of each and every blood bank in India should be at least 10 units per day, of course by fulfilling the requirement of any particular blood bank, to fulfill the total blood need of the country.
5. That Blood Banks collecting less than 600 units per annum needs to be closed.
6. That Blood Transfusion Services in India should ensure that blood and
Blood products are available, accessible and affordable to all the people of India at all times and at all places.
7. That IEC materials containing same message in Regional Languages should
be prepared through the respective State AIDS Control Societies and make available to the community for utilising the same for promoting Voluntary Blood Donation in the country.
8. That the Union Government and the State Governments should keep budgetary provisions for supporting and extending financial assistance to various organisations engaged in the field of promoting voluntary blood
donation in the country.
9. That voluntary blood donor organisations should be included in the respective State Blood Transfusion Council as members.
10. That presentation of valuable gifts to the donors and to the donor organisations enticing them to donate blood should be prohibited in the interest of blood safety.
11. To approach rural areas, where maximum population Iives to donate blood through SHGs (Self Help Groups), which are 30 lakhs in groups.
12. To implement School Education Programme in a scientific and systematic way through various donor organisations for getting sustainable blood donors for the country.
13. To involve and recruit more young people to join with the existing Blood Donation Movement in the country for learning and carrying out the activities continually.
14. That appropriate training programme be designed and imparted to personnel at all levels like blood bankers, blood users, motivators, donor organisations and others.
15. That all agencies involved in blood banking should maintain proper documents and records with the help of modem technology to keep information related to total blood programme like blood requirement, blood collection, preservation, testing results and distribution system, donors’ records, etc., to help analysing various data and research work for further development
