It offers entire spectrum of services from blood collection to testing and component separation. Voluntary blood donor list & registry are maintained Blood donation camps are conducted periodically. It caters to nearby hospitals as well .
Blood is collected from donors who satisfy stringent donor selection criteria . Whole blood & its components like packed red cells , platelets, fresh frozen plasma, Cryoprecipitate are available. Leucodepleted products like red cells to prevent & reduce transfusion reactions are also available.
Vels Medical College & Hospital Blood Bank is one of the few centers to do TTI Screening procedures with advanced methods like CLIA which reduces incubation period of viruses like HIV, HBV , HCV in blood donors & increases the safety of blood transfusion to patients .
Advanced facility of Apheresis, where in a cell separator is used to collect required components like platelets , stem cells , granulocytes from the donor is available , which is used mainly for treating Oncology & transplant patients.