Kasturba Hospital Blood Centre is now accredited with NABH

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Kasturba Hospital, Manipal has received certification from National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers (NABH), Quality Council of India for Blood Bank. 

This certificate is a testimony to the quality and safety of blood dispensed at Kasturba Hospital Blood Centre. With this certificate, Kasturba Hospital Manipal has added one more feather to the crown of quality and accreditations. 

Dr H S Ballal, Pro-Chancellor of MAHE, Manipal handed over the certificate of accreditation to Dr Shamee Shastry, director of Kasturba Hospital Blood Centre.

Lt Gen (Dr) M D. Venkatesh, vice-chancellor of MAHE who congratulated the team, emphasized the role of transfusion services in delivering quality healthcare.

Dr P L N G Rao, pro-vice-chancellor (Health Sciences) said the certificate of accreditation is the reflection of the quality services delivered by the Blood Centre and it is a process of continuous quality improvement.

Complementing the team, Dr Sharath K Rao, Dean of KMC, Manipal, said the program helps to strive towards excellence. Transfusion Medicine is an evolving branch of medicine and Kasturba Medical College, Manipal also offers a postgraduate training program in this field.




C G Muthana, COO and Dr Avinash Shetty, medical superintendent of Kasturba Hospital averred that the quality system implemented in the blood centre covers the entire transfusion chain starting from blood donors to the patients. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the staff of the blood centre has worked relentlessly to meet the new challenges, they averred

About the scope of the NABH Accreditation, Dr Shamee Shastry, director, Blood Centre at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal said in addition to the basic services of a blood centre, it also includes specialized blood products such as leuko-depleted, irradiated blood components, apheresis products, granulocytes, nucleic acid testing, and therapeutic procedures performed by the department of immunohematology and blood transfusion.

 

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