{Rwanda has introduced a new system of testing patients’ blood or blood donated to them known as Apheresis Technique using Blood fractionation.The newly introduced system will especially be useful to the patients cancer and malaria among others.}
The new system has already started in Rwanda Military Hospital in March 2016 .The Blood fractionation machine helps in the process of removing unwanted component parts of blood.
The introduced machine has the ability to remove one of the three main components of white and red blood cells and plasma and a patient s administered with what his body might be lacking.
For instance as aggravated malaria attacks red blood cells, the machine has the capacity of removing contaminated cells for replacement with healthy ones.
Ten Rwandan doctors are being trained by German medical experts on the operation of the machine.
An expert in diseases transmitted through blood, Dr Fabien Ntaganda said that the launched machine will improve treatment of diseases.
“It will ensure that only desired components of blood are selected for transfusion which will as well increase life expectancy,” he said.
Before it was introduced, people in need of its services would be referred to India, German or South Africa.
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