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National blood donor vigilance programme to complement HvPI towards complete blood safety
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Shardul Nautiyal, Mumbai
May 31 , 2016
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As a step towards complete reporting of adverse transfusion reactions
across the country in both blood recipients and blood donors, the Union
health ministry is planning to launch an online platform to help access
and connect with blood donors which was earlier restricted till
reporting of transfusion reactions in blood recipients as part of
National Blood Donor Vigilance Programme (NBDVP).
NBDVP was
launched on June 14, 2015 on World Blood Donor Day at Science City,
Kolkata to improve donor safety and satisfaction through monitoring,
analysing and researching adverse events.
This would broaden the
scope of Haemovigilance Programme of India (HvPI) in the country with
the help of a software to be launched on the lines of Haemovigil
software meant to collect data related to blood transfusion reactions
from blood donors.
This will help complete full circle with
respect to reporting adverse reactions both in terms of blood donor and
recipient and hence serve the larger purpose of blood safety through
HvPI. It would involve blood banks across the country to register online
with a unique ID and password to uplink with the server based in
National Institute of Biologicals (NIB), Noida for reporting blood donor
adverse reactions.
The software development is done in
collaboration with ministry of information and technology and NIB with
support from National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Launched in June
2015, NBDVP will complement HvPI which currently generates reports on
blood recipient related adverse reaction through a Transfusion Reaction
Reporting Form (TRRF). This is then linked via Haemovigil software to
NIB.
HvPI at the national level was launched on December 10, 2012
by NIB, functioning under the ministry of health and family welfare
(MoHFW) to track adverse reactions associated with blood transfusion and
blood product administration.
In a similar manner, NBDVP will
collect blood donor data from 2,760 licensed blood banks and medical
institutions through a Blood Donor Adverse Reaction Reporting Form
(BDARF). It will help to analyse risk factors, implement and evaluate
preventive measures, reduce frequency of adverse events and increase
donor frequency.
HvPI, which was launched at the national level
by NIB aims to identify trends in adverse reactions and events, thereby
to form transfusion policy, target areas for improvement in practice,
stimulate research and raise awareness of transfusion hazards.
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