SUB-COMMITTEE TO DRAW ACTION PLAN FOR NATIONAL BLOOD POLICY
The Governing Body of the National
Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC), the policy formulating apex
body in matters pertaining to operation of blood centres met in
Delhi recently to draw up an action plan for the National blood
policy. The meeting was presided by the Additional Secretary and
Project Director NACO, Smt. Meenakshi Dutta Ghosh.
A sub-committee has been constituted
and entrusted with the task of drawing up an action plan to operationalise
the National blood policy which was announced by the Government
recently. It was also decided in the meeting that particular emphasis
has to be placed on decentralising state of art blood storage
centres and district level blood banks. In order to reduce the
delays the procedure relating to licensing of blood banks are
being looked into and efforts are being made to enhance the access
of safe supply of blood at the district level.
It may be recalled that the National
Blood Policy states that NBTC shall be the policy formulating
apex body in relation to all matters pertaining to operation of
blood centres. NACO shall allocate the budget to NBTC for strengthening
Blood Transfusion Service.
