The director of Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT), Jean Baptiste Tapco has expressed concern over inadequate knowledge of health care service providers and improper performance of some institutions which may result in transfusing contaminated blood to the patients.
He noted this yesterday during the beginning of the 8th summit of AfSBT.
“Sometimes blood transferred to patients in need is little or blood bankers’ knowledge is inadequate which results into patients’ deaths. This adds to malfunction of some institutions in charge of blood distribution that people may receive blood containing virus causing hepatitis or AIDS,” he said.
Tapco noted that Rwanda has demonstrated that progress can be attained and finds that countries should learn from Rwanda’s achievements.
“Rwanda has shown the possibility of reaching development through implementing good policies. Everyone should learn from it, since we are here to share ideas in blood donation and learn from excellent achievements of this country,” he said.
The Minister of Health, Dr.Agnes Binagwaho said that people from Africa and Rwanda need to get pure blood and make sure it is affordable.
“This is the real time to study well the issue since our people need well screened blood with no HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis contamination among others.,” she said.
Dr. Binagwaho said that the four-day meeting held in Kigali is seeking how to collect, properly keep and distribute blood.
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