HOSPITAL LINKAGE PROGRAMME

The Problem: hospitals and patients face a The Strategy:

daunting task trying to access blood, most of the
available donors in hospitals are either paid or 1. Advocacy to hospital mgt
family replacement donors. There are more than
enough evidence to show that these groups of 2. Capacity building of
donors are not safe, the screening of blood in most hospital staff
hospitals is also inadequate. There are therefore
two main challenges; Accessibility and Safety. 3. Development of efficient
Logistic systems

The Solution: In order to address the two main 4. Efficient data management
challenges recognised above, the National Blood
Transfusion Service with support from Safe Blood 5. Infrastructural upgrade
For Africa Foundation and the CDC Nigeria started
the Hospital Linkage Programme . 6. Conversion of FRDs to
VNRBDs
7. Hemovigilance.
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The Challenges: The Way forward:

 Fragmented transfusion services

 Use of FRDs and paid donors in hospitals

 Screening of blood for transfusion with rapid test

kits in hospitals

 Poor blood storage facilities in hospitals

 Poor data and reporting mechanisms

 Lack of cooperation by some blood bank staff

 Poor attitude towards voluntary blood donation

 Inadequate funding

 Poorly coordinated logistics