Advocate/encourage setting up and maintaining functional hospital transfusion committees (HTC)
8. Support for IT system including on:
a. System for donor data management
b. Improvements of the patient record systems in hospitals on transfusion c. Provision of database that allows traceability
d. Staff training on IT
9. Strengthen capacity building:
a. National training for all stakeholders in haemovigilance, including clinicians, nurses, midwives and blood bank staff on best transfusion practices and haemovigilance
b. Setting up of haemovigilance systems at local (hospital/blood bank) level
(protocols, forms, reporting systems, administrative organization)
c. Assistance in setting up haemovigilance to priority countries
d. Step wise implementation - to initially start the haemovigilance programmes in major medical college hospitals and through regular training further phase it up in other hospitals and health facilities