DONOR DEFERRAL PATTERN AMONG BLOOD DONORS IN BLOOD BANK OF A MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL OF CHHATTISGARH

A 3 Years retrospective study conducted on "Donor Deferral Pattern among Blood Donors in Blood Bank'' of a Medical College Hospital of Chhattisgarh.This study shows the major possible causes of deferrals for donation of blood in northern Chhattisgarh.Donor's detail information on the donor deferral including the cause of deferral was recorded in deferral register.Donors deferred were analyzed and computed for study on the basic of medical examination.In the study done from August 2012 to July 2015 a total of 18773 donors were registered and the screened.Out of these 18153 were male and 620 were female.Among the male, 1486 were deferred which makes 8.18% of the total registered.Among female, 339 were deferred which makes 54.67% of the total registered.The maximum numbers of deferrals were due to low Hb (17.97%) the second most important cause for deferral in this region happens to be alcohol/ganja intake (11.61%).The third leading cause is skin puncture or ear piercing (10.57%).This figure is mainly due to professional donors who frequent around the hospital very often.Interestingly forth cause is deferral is medication (7.39%) mostly over the counter drugs.Other major cause for deferrals in descending order are low BP (6.68%), fever and cold (6.30%), hypertension (5.64%), underweight (4.54%), Typhoid (4.05%), menstrual cycle (3.39%)and donated <3 month (2.41%).The least percentage of cause of deferral was due to breast feeding (0.10%).It is because of very low percentage of female donation.Strict screening of donor is compulsory to achieve safe blood equally important is to increase the number of voluntary donations with minimum deferral.To achieve this it is necessary to study and analyze various causes for donor deferral & categorize them under temporary & Permanent, so that temporary deferral can be converted to donations.Proper medical examination and Strict deferral system of the blood donors in blood banks reduces the risk of transfusion transmissible infections.