Our Story
Athma Blood Bank (License No 420/28C) is situated in greater South Chennai City, run by Charitable Trust, which is exceptionally designed and organized systematically for Blood donor’s Convenient, Comfort, (C2). Our Blood Bank caters to the needs of Patients
Hospital 150 bedded tertiary care hospital with super specialty departments. It is a 100% Blood Components preparation centre & around 300 to 400 blood donors donate blood every month.
Our Vission
- Anticipate and respond to customer needs
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement
- Build trust between the organization, its membership and the community
- Provide education which enhances the understanding of transfusion services and the need for blood
- Ensure blood component availability at all times for all needy patients
- Enhancing the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the organization through team work.
- Provide a work environment where individuals’ values and contributions are recognized
- Ultimate objective – to provide Safe Blood to Wright patient, Wright Time
Goal
To ensure adequate supply of quality blood / blood products to all needy patients at all times
Our Projects
ATHMA BLOOD BANK - Chennai (License No 420/28C)
Considering the shortfall of blood and blood components, lack of awareness, and motivation on blood donation, we had initiated our first project in the name of Athma Blood Bank in Sugam Hospital, Chrompet, located in the southern part of Chennai. The centre is operational since 2017 with systematic and stringent protocols and with Quality Indicators to monitor our system round the clock. Knowing the importance of Blood components and usages, Athma Blood Bank urges to have a 100% Component preparation centre which is need of the hour.
ATHMA BLOOD CENTRE – Thiruvannamalai. (493/28C)
Realizing the crisis and logistic gap between the urban and rural health care services AHCS started the centre to expand its services in the rural pockets of the state. The facility is established in Ramana Maharishi Rangammal Hospital, Thiruvannamalai, and awaiting for the license.
SAI BLOOD CENTRE – 504/28C. Chengalpattu
The ongoing state-of-the-art blood centre will be commencing its operations in the month of October 2021 with blood components and Apheresis facilities. It is a medical technology in which the blood of a person is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation. It is thus an extracorporeal therapy.
Blood Donation Process
Who can donate blood ?
Any healthy person (Male and Female) with good habits in the age group of 18-65 can donate blood once in 3 months regularly. During blood donation we are collecting only 350 /450m1 from the 5 liters of blood available in the body.
Whom to contact ?
A person who wishes to donate blood can contact the concerned blood bank medical officer in the district or in the toll free no. 1800-419-1800 / 1097.
Where one can donate blood ?
Any healthy person (Male and Female) with good habits in the age group of 18-65 can donate blood once in 3 months regularly. During blood donation we are collecting only 350 /450m1 from the 5 liters of blood available in the body.
Is there any charges / payments to receive blood from the Govt. Blood Banks ?
Blood and Blood components are available in all blood banks in the Govt. Hospitals at free of cost based on the request made by the doctor who is treating the patient. ln case any request made by the Private Hospital for want of blood the patient has to pay an amount of Rs.500/- as service charge for obtaining any blood and blood components.
The current clinical demand for blood
Blood and Blood components are available in all blood banks in the Govt. Hospitals at free of cost based on the request made by the doctor who is treating the patient. ln case any request made by the Private Hospital for want of blood the patient has to pay an amount of Rs.500/- as service charge for obtaining any blood and blood components.
Blood collection details in the State
The average total units of blood collected in Tamil Nadu through Govt and Private blood banks are 8.93 lakhs out of which 3.31 lakhs are collected through Govt. blood banks. Around 90% of the total units of blood collected in all Govt. blood banks in the state are mainly through voluntary blood donation. The demand is around 1.32 lakhs , the supply of blood is around 90 thousand in a month
Current supply and utilization of blood
The current supply of blood is the total number of units of whole blood and components supplied to healthcare facilities, against all requests/demand for blood transfusion over a defined period of time, usually taken as one year. The supply of blood is generally from licensed blood banks or blood storage centres across the country. Ideally, a health care system should address 100% of demand for blood by ensuring uninterrupted supply within its catchment area. However, there exists a gap between clinical demand and supply due to the low volume of voluntary blood donation, lack of awareness, irrational demand, poor supply chain management system etc.