No Shortage Of #Blood Banks
No Shortage Of Blood Banks
There is no shortage of Blood Banks in the country, and there are a total of 2708 Blood Banks in the country. There are 81 districts in the country that do not have a Blood Bank. The list of these districts is given below:
| S. No | State | Districts without Blood Bank with names | |
| 1 | Andaman & Nicobar | Total 2 districts UT
(Nicobar Group, Middle & North Andaman) |
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| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | Total 9 district of State
(East Kameng, West Kameng, KurungKumey, KraDaadi, Siang, Dibang Valley, Namsai, Tirap, Longding) |
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| 3 | Assam | Total 9 districts of State
(Udalguri,Baksa, Chirang, Kamrup (Rural ), BiswnathChariali, South Salmara& Mankasar, Hojai,vi Charaidaow, West Karbi, Anglong) |
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| 4 | Bihar | Total 5 districts of State
( Sheohar&Supaul |
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| 5 | Chhattisgarh | Total 11 districts of State (Gariyaband, Balodabazar, Balod, Bemetara, Janjgir, Surajpur, Balrampur, Jashpur, Kondagaon, Sukma, Bijapur ) |
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| 6 | Gujarat | Total 1 district of State
(Ahwa-Dang) |
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| 7 | Himachal Pradesh | Total 1 district of State
(Lahaul&Spiti) |
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| 8 | Jammu & Kashmir | Total 5 districts of State (Reasi, Samba, Shopian, Ganderbal&Bandipora) |
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| 9 | Jharkhand | Total 6 districts of State
(Khunti, Ramgarh, Godda, Jamtara, Seraikela, Bokaro) |
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| 10 | Madhya Pradesh | Total 2 districts of State
(Anuppur, Agar) |
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| 11 | Manipur | Total 5 districts of State
(Tamenglong, Ukhrul, Bishnupur, Senapati and Chandel) |
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| 12 | Meghalaya | Total 8 districts of State
( West Khasi Hills District, South-West Khasi Hills District, RiBhoi District, East Jaintia Hills District, North Garo Hills District, East Garo Hills District, South Garo Hills District, South- West Garo Hills District) |
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| 13 | Nagaland | Total 3 districts of State
(Peren, Longleng&Kiphire) |
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| 14 | Sikkim | Total 3 districts of State
DH, Mangan(N), Singtam(E) &Gyalsing(W) |
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| 15 | Tripura | Total 3 districts of State (Khowai, Sepahijala, South Tripura) | |
| 16 | Uttar Pradesh | Total 4 districts of State
(Amethi, Hapur, Shambhal&Shamli) |
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| 17 | Uttarakhand | Total 4 districts of State
Tehri, Rudraprayag, Champawat and Bageshwar |
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| Total = | 81 |
A large number of these districts are new and have recently been crafted out. The number of the Blood Banks in the country, State/UT-wise is given below:
Number of licensed blood bank in India State / UT wise up to Nov. 2015
| S.NO | NAME OF STATE | Public including Govt. Blood Banks | Private including charitable trust Blood Bank | TOTAL |
| 1. | Andaman & Nicobar | 02 | 01 | 03 |
| 2. | Andhra Pradesh | 32 | 93 | 125 |
| 3. | Arunachal Pradesh | 09 | 01 | 10 |
| 4 * | Assam | 37 | 28 | 65 |
| 5 * | Bihar | 32 | 35 | 67 |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 03 | 01 | 04 |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 19 | 30 | 49 |
| 8 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli | – | 01 | 01 |
| 9 | Daman & Diu | 01 | 01 | 02 |
| 10 | NCT of Delhi | 22 | 47 | 69 |
| 11. | Goa | 03 | 01 | 04 |
| 12 | Gujarat | 30 | 106 | 136 |
| 13 | Haryana | 26 | 50 | 76 |
| 14 | Himachal Pradesh | 19 | 03 | 22 |
| 15 | Jammu & Kashmir | 29 | 04 | 33 |
| 16 | Jharkhand | 26 | 18 | 44 |
| 17 | Karnataka | 40 | 153 | 193 |
| 18 | Kerala | 43 | 140 | 183 |
| 19 | Lakshadweep | 01 | 00 | 01 |
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh | 54 | 90 | 144 |
| 21 | Maharashtra | 74 | 236 | 310 |
| 22 | Manipur | 04 | 01 | 05 |
| 23 | Meghalaya | 05 | 02 | 07 |
| 24 | Mizoram | 08 | 02 | 10 |
| 25 * | Nagaland | 05 | – | 05 |
| 26 * | Odisha | 63 | 20 | 83 |
| 27 | Pondicherry | 03 | 10 | 13 |
| 28 * | Punjab | 48 | 53 | 101 |
| 29 * | Rajasthan | 48 | 54 | 102 |
| 30 | Sikkim | 02 | 01 | 03 |
| 31 | Tamil Nadu | 102 | 198 | 300 |
| 32 * | Telangana | 27 | 113 | 140 |
| 33 | Tripura | 06 | 02 | 08 |
| 34 * | Uttar Pradesh | 100 | 142 | 242 |
| 35 | Uttarkhand | 20 | 08 | 28 |
| 36 | West Bengal | 81 | 39 | 120 |
| Total | 1024 | 1684 | 2708 |
The National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC) has vide reference No. S12015/1/2013-NACO (NBTC) dated 22nd December 2015 issued an order by which blood banks have been asked to put their stock availability status online on National Health Portal with following objectives:
(i) To ease the access of blood for patients.
(ii) To increase transparency by display of stocks of blood & blood components in public domain.
National Health Portal provides platform for display of stock status of blood in blood banks. All the National AIDS Control Organization-supported Blood Banks in the country have been linked to the National Health Portal.
The Minister of State (Health and FW), ShriShripadYessoNaikstated this in a written reply in the LokSabha here today.
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