Blood Bank

We are approved as “The Regional Blood Bank Centre”

The fully-automatic system in the Velammal Hospital blood bank enables grouping and RH typing, Cross-matching and conduct various specialized tests to detect unidentified antibodies. Infection screening procedures with advanced methods like chemiluminescence (CLIA) and nucleic acid test (NAT) are put into practice. This method reduces the incubation period of virus-like HIV, HBV, and HCV in blood donors and increases the safety of blood transfusion to the patients. Leuco filtration of the red cells and platelets are conducted to prevent and reduce transfusion reaction to the patients. Besides the blood bank facility is available around the clock.