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Manipal, 30th March 21: Kasturba Hospital, Manipal has received certification from National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers (NABH), Quality Council of India for Blood Bank. Quality and safety of blood being the priority of Kasturba hospital Blood Centre, now received NABH Certificate of Accreditation. 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 Center, and he appreciated the efforts of the entire team. Lt. Gen. (Dr.) M. D. Venkatesh, Vice-Chancellor of MAHE congratulated the team and emphasized the role of transfusion services in delivering quality healthcare. Dr. PLNG Rao, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health Sciences) said that “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 that, “the program helps to strive towards excellence. He also added that Transfusion Medicine is an evolving branch of medicine and Kasturba Medical College, Manipal also offers a postgraduate training program in this field”.

 Mr. C G Muthana, COO and Dr. Avinash Shetty, Medical Superintendent of Kasturba Hospital, conveyed that the quality system implemented in the Blood Center covers the entire transfusion chain starting from blood donors to the patients. They also mentioned that, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the staff of the Blood Center has worked relentlessly to meet the new challenges.

Speaking about the Scope of the NABH Accreditation, Dr. Shamee Shastry, Director, Blood Center at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal said that, “in addition to the basic services of a Blood Centre, it also includes specialized blood products such as leukodepleted, irradiated blood components, apheresis products, granulocytes, Nucleic Acid Testing, and the therapeutic procedures performed by the department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion”.

On this occasion Dr. Narayan Sabhahit, Registrar of MAHE, Dr. Suneel C Mundkur, Advisor, Quality implementation, Dr. Ganesh Mohan, Quality Manager of Blood Center, and others were present. 

 Medical Superintendent