Assistant Blood Transfusion Officer

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Proper pre donation counseling and taking of donor’s medical history.
• Pre donation medical examination. This work is complementary to the work of Staff Nurse.
• Phlebotomy
• Post donation care and manage post donation reaction.
• Verifying:
• a) The blood group donor, patient, done by Jr. Technician / Sr. Technician / Technical Supervisor.
• b) Cross match of donor’s blood with patient’s sample done by Technical Staff.
• c) Test results of HIV I & II, HBSAg, HCV, MP, VDRL,
• Atypical Ab, Haemoysin done by Technical Staff.
• Supervise discarding of reactive blood units and blood units which need to be discarded for any other cause and ensure proper documentation according to F.D.A. guidelines.
• Preserve and maintain the data of CMS.
• Supervise the proper preservation of donor sample for 35 days / 42 days depending on the expiry of the PCV/WB unit or for 8 days after the unit is issued whichever is earlier and patient’s sample for 8 days after received it.
• Supervise the tests performed on donor units that have cause post transfusion reaction and enter the cause of reaction if possible and guide accordingly.
• Supervise the Quality Control of the blood products, reagents and kits.
• Supervise issue of blood and blood components.
• Supervise issue of blood products as per expiry.

Qualification & Experience

• MBBS
• MBBS + Dip in clinical pathology/ Pathology/ Bacteriology
• MBBS + Dip in Transfusion Medicine / Immunohematology/ Blood Transfusion
• MD pathology or DNB Pathology
• MD Transfusion medicine / DNB Transfusion Medicine/ MD Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion
• EXPERIENCE:
• 1 to 2 years
• Experience in licensed Blood Centre