Punjab Blood Transfusion Authority (PBTA) decided that only a license holder Blood Bank would be authorised for transfusion of blood and strict legal action would be initiated against the delinquents. Parliamentary Secretary Health Punjab Dr Saeed Elahi, while presiding over a meeting of Punjab Blood Transfusion Authority (PBTA), here today, said that it has been decided to regulate all blood banks of Punjab through licensing so as to provide healthy blood to needy people and no blood bank would be operated without license.
He said that this decision would be a milestone for eradication of fatal diseases like Hepatitis-C and AIDs. Dr Asad Ashraf MPA, Additional Secretary Health (Technical) Dr Anwar Janjua, DG Health Dr Nisar Ahmad Cheema, Secretary PBTA Dr Jafar Saleem, Colonel Maqbool Azam of CMH Lahore, Director Punjab AIDS Control Programme Dr Salman Shahid and other members attended the meeting.
Dr Saeed Elahi said that all government and private blood banks in the province would be registered under Safe Blood Transfusion Act 1999. It was decided in the meeting to constitute blood awareness committees at provincial and district levels to encourage blood donors which would include government, journalists, showbiz, social workers and representatives of civil society. It was decided in the meeting that in future only a license holder blood bank would be granted permission for transfusion of blood; otherwise, strict legal action would be initiated against it.
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