1Assistant Professor Community Medicine, MMMCH, Solan
2Assistant Professor, Community Medicine, MMIMSR, Mullana
3Professor, Community Medicine, MMIMSR, Mullana
*Corresponding Author: Nazuk Razdan Assistant professor, Department of Community Medicine. Maharshi Markandeshwar Medical College and Hospital, Kumarhatti, Solan, Email: nazuk_razdan@yahoo.com
Online published on 21 July, 2018.
An integrated strategy for blood safety is required for the provision of safe and adequate blood. Recruiting a sufficient number of safe blood donors is an emerging challenge. The shortage of blood in India is due to an increase in the demand, with fewer voluntary and limited number of replacement blood donors. A study on the Demographic profile of Blood Donors: A Study of a tertiary care medical college Hospital Ambala facility based study was done.
A hospital based cross-sectional design was conducted among 800 blood donors. The statistical analyses were done by using the SPSS software. The associations between the demographic factors were analyzed by using the Chi square test.
Mean age of replacement group was 28 ± 7.392%. Majority (82.4%) knew about their blood group.
Creating an opportunity for blood donation by conducting many blood donation camps may increase the voluntary blood donations.
Voluntary, replacement, blood donors, age, religion
