Who can donate blood?
The person must fulfill several criteria to be accepted as a blood donor. These criteria are set forth to ensure the safety of the donor as well as the quality of donated blood.
Donor Selection Criteria
Risk Behaviours
Type of Donors
Replacement and Paid donors are no longer accepted by NBTS. Replacement donation was carried out until recently in some blood banks due to the shortage of blood stocks. Asking patients for replacement donors will lead to more pressure on the relatives, who are already in stress and this in turn results in illegal paid donations.
Directed donations are used in certain conditions such as in rare blood groups.
NBTS achieved the mighty figure of 100% voluntory non-remunerated blood donor base.