Prathama (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prathama Blood Centre is blood bank situated at Ahmedabad, jointly established in 2000, by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and Advanced Transfusion Medicine Research Foundation as non-profit voluntary organization. The blood centre designed to expand in a modular manner to accommodate 150,000 units of blood per annum. Prathama Blood Center is non profit organization registered as Section-25 company and Charitable Trust. 100% Voluntary blood collection. About 80,000 blood & blood components are distributed annually without replacement. It launched its Thalassemia Eradication Program in January 2009. A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusions.