Kalibo, Aklan- In a resolution introduced during the 12th Regular Session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan last Wednesday, SP Member Victor Manuel M. Garcia of the Western District has asked Aklan Governor Carlito S. Marquez, through the Provincial Planning and Development Office and the Provincial Local Finance Committee to consider the inclusion in next year’s Annual Investment Plan the procurement and installation of blood banking facilities and equipment at the Dr. Rafael S. Tumbukon Memorial Hospital (DRSTMH).
Garcia also asked the governor in his proposed resolution through the PPDO and the PLFC to appropriate funds for the purpose, possibly, from next year’s 20% IRA Development Fund and to appoint or designate qualified manpower requirements of the blood banking facility.
For equipment alone, Garcia has submitted an estimated P7.3 Million total procurement cost which are composed of two (2) brand new blood bank refrigerators, brand new plasma freezer, brand new portable automatic sealer, brand new pharmaceutical refrigerator, brand new blood collection mixer, brand new biomedical freezer, brand new refrigerated centrifuges ( ROTIXA 50RS and ROTOSILENTA 63RS).
Garcia added that the manpower requirements of the proposed blood bank will require a duly licensed physician as head certified in clinical pathology or blood banking by the Philippines Society of Pathologists; certified in blood transfusion by the Philippine Society of Blood Transfusion and certified in Anatomic Pathology by PSP or in Hematology by PSHBT.
The blood bank will also require four (4) registered medical technologists with 6 months job experience in blood banking service, a Donor Recruitment Officer, and a trained Senior Medical Technologist as Quality Assurance Officer.
Garcia said the physical facilities of the blood bank must conform with the DOH Manual Standards.
The board member form the Western District stressed that it is now time that this perennial problem in health, the utter lack of blood supply storage and processing facilities in this province be addressed in the light of the dengue outbreak which hit Aklan.
Garcia’s resolution was referred to the Committees on Laws, Appropriations and Health for further study.
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