Over the last six years, blood center employee Dylan Smith was often asked how frequently he gave blood himself. Thanks to new federal guidelines finalized in May, gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships can now donate at many blood centers around the country without abstaining from sex. Bloodworks Northwest, where Smith works as a donor services supervisor, adopted the change on Dec. 6.
Beyond conventional and ordinary functions of the Blood Centre, Gandhi Nagar Jammu Government Hospital has been granted the often sought after permission to prepare blood components as additional products. In other words, it means a distinction of being the first District Hospital in Jammu and Kashmir to have been granted such a permission. In simpler parlance it means that the existing Blood Centre is converted into and can function as a Blood Component Laboratory. Patients in need of Red […]
Becomes 1st DH in J&K to have such facility Govind Sharma JAMMU, July 24: In a major achievement for Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, Central Licences Approving Authority (CLAA), Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) which works under Directorate General of Health Services, Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, has granted permission to its Blood Centre to prepare blood components as additional products. Sources said this is indeed a major achievement for Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar as till date only […]