Sero-Prevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections in  Blood Donors at Blood Bank of a Tertiary Care Hospital - an  indicator of Blood Safety in the Region: A Study from North  Haryana (India)

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Blood Donors, Blood Transfusion, HIV, HBV, HCV, TTI, Seroprevalence

Background: Blood transfusion saves millions of lives worldwide each year but at the same time it is also

associated with large number of complications including transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs).

Aims and Objectives: To access the seroprevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV, Syphilis and Malaria in blood

donors

Setting: The Blood Bank of a Tertiary level Hospital in Haryana, India.

Study Design: A retrospective hospital record based study.

Material and Method: The study included blood donors of age group 18 - 65 years. Data of total 20918

blood donors was collected from July 2017 to August 2019.

Results: The seroprevalence of HCV, HBV, HIV, Malaria and Syphilis as reported in our study was 1.16 %,

0.78 %, 0.057 % ,0.014% and 0.124 % respectively.. Higher prevalence of TTIs were reported in replacement

donors as compared to voluntary donors and in male compared to females.

Conclusion: Voluntary blood donor services are very much needed and should be encouraged along with

stringent donor selection and latest screening assays.

Sachin Garg1 , Nishant Saini2, Rajesh Garg3, Shefally Garg4, Hemlata Munde5

1 Assistant Professor and Incharge Blood Bank, Department of Pathology, Kalpana Chawla Govt. Medical College, Karnal (HR), India, 2 Head , Dept. of Transfusion Medicine, Patel Hospital Jalandhar, 3 Associate Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Kalpana Chawla Govt. Medical College, Karnal (HR), India, 4 Senior Resident , Department of conservative dentistry and Endodontics, Desh bhagat dental college, Gobindgarh, rofessor, Department of Pathology, KCGMC, Karnal