Siliguri/Alipurduar, June 19: The subdivisional hospitals in Kurseong, Kalimpong and Alipurduar are hit by an acute shortage of take a look at kits for Hepatitis-B within the last 2 months.
The shortage is attributed to the halt within the offer of the kits by the Regional Blood Transfusion Centre at North Bengal Medical school and Hospital in Siliguri.
"The pointers of the National Aids management Organisation (NACO) build it obligatory for blood banks to conduct tests for HIV, Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis C, malaria and venereal diseases on every unit of blood collected for transfusion. However, the Alipurduar subdivisional hospital has not received any kit from the RBTC to check Hepatitis B within the past 2 months. we have a tendency to couldn't provide blood to patients within the past one week because the take a look at can't be conducted,' said Swapan Sarkar, the chief medical officer of health of Jalpaiguri.
The RBTC authorities admitted the matter and said they were being given less range of kits for Hepatitis B from the State Blood Transfusion Centre in Calcutta.
We are alert to the issues faced by the blood banks. Even the RBTC is ill-equipped currently. The crisis has occurred as a result of the SBTC provides us with terribly less Hepatitis B kits. The Calcutta centre delivers solely three hundred kits at a time and that they are meant for twelve blood banks in north Bengal. I actually have informed the SBTC authorities concerning the crisis and that they have agreed to send around two hundred kits,"" said Mridumoy Das, the RBTC in-charge."
Norms say solely kits approved by the NACO may well be used for blood tests. The kits provided by the SBTC are checked by the NACO.
Das said the 3 subdivisional hospitals had been asked to send blood samples to the RBTC for tests since they didn't have enough kits. "There is an alternate methodology to conduct the tests, however needed blood units in bulk. The Eliza machine will be used for all tests however we want blood units in bulk. The tests can't be conducted by the machine if there are but fifty blood units," he said.
The Kurseong and Kalimpong hospitals conjointly admitted the shortage of the kits and said they were left with no alternative choice however to shop for kits from the native market ' a violation of the NACO norms.
Sending blood samples to the NBMCH for tests isn't a possible observe. we've bought some kits domestically to hold out the tests, said a politician at the blood bank in Kurseong subdivisional hospital.
A supply at the blood bank in Kalimpong hospital said: "We face the crisis for the past 2 months. Recently, some kits, though not adequate, has been provided to us by the hospital authorities. we have a tendency to are nonetheless to urge contemporary offer from the RBTC and are running the bank somehow."
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