About Department

Transfusion medicine is a multidisciplinary area concerned with the proper use of blood and blood components in the treatment of human diseases. The Department of Transfusion Medicine at this Institute was established in 1989 by Dr JG Jolly. The department was established as a state of the art facility to provide blood transfusion services to train medical and para-medical personnel in related areas and to function as an apical medical and research department in the country in this field. According to the principles of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) strict adherence to quality control at all phases of donor selection, donor room procedures, screening and processing of blood and serological procedures for grouping and typing of blood are being followed. The department took a lead in starting a postgraduate course in Transfusion Medicine leading to award of MD degree (Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion) for the first time in the country. Besides an MD program the department is also running a Post-Doctoral course of one year duration (PDCC) in Apheresis Technology and Blood Component Therapy. A new course for technicians- MSc Medical Laboratory Technology (Transfusion Medicine) has also been started recently. The department has taken a lead in blood bank automation especially in blood component separation and pretransfusion testing. It also has specialized laboratories-Immunohematology laboratory, NAT laboratory, Quality Control and Hemostasis laboratory and Molecular laboratory which provide highly modern laboratory and clinical facilities.Therapeutic plasma exchange in select categories of patients and plasma donation facilities are available besides plateletpheresis procedures in the department.

The department is recognized as Regional Blood Transfusion Center & State of Art- Model Blood Bank by NACO, MOH & FW , Govt. of India

  • More than 26000 Whole Blood collections and about 1000 Plateletpheresis annually. 100% component separation (No Whole Blood). NAT facility for Viral markers since 2013.

    • Specialized Hemotherapy for

  • Thalassemia: Extended phenotyping, antigen negative blood with leuko-filtration; without blood donor replacement
  • Hemophilia – Nodal center for state hemophilia program for implementing government hemophilia policy in 26 HTCs across UP from Nov 2015 till March 2019.
  • Antenatal Serology- Diagnosis and management of allo-immunized mothers, Transfusion and Immuno-hematological support for intra-uterine transfusions (IUT) and Exchange transfusions for pediatric patients. Ours is the only center in the State providing special transfusion support for IUT.
  • Stem cell / Bone Marrow Transplant- Irradiation, immuno-hematological monitoring
  • Renal Transplant- Immuno-hematological monitoring in ABO mismatch renal transplant
  • Trauma Patients- Provision of Trauma packs at Apex Trauma Center
  • Therapeutic Apheresis , Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in selected patients, including hematology, neurology, endocrine medicine etcandTherapeutic phlebotomy for patients with iron overload. Plasmapheresis procedures on recovered Covid-19 patients for collection of convalescent plasma.
  • Thrombo-elastography- Viscoelastic test for diagnosis and management of bleeding/coagulation disorders (Only few centers in India using TEG in Dept of Transfusion Medicine)
  • Facility for Irradiation of cellular blood components -First and Only in the state
  • Nodal center for Blood Safety Training in the region
  • Best department in the country award, by ISBTI in 2006.
  • Active involvement with MCI / NBE in curriculum development for this discipline