Online Test Ordering System

To provide full spectrum, high-end, complex serology testing, RBC DUHS has established a reference laboratory with skill sets, and reagents available to perform problem-solving of difficult cases where different centers in and outside Karachi (HBB’s and Thalassemia centers) that are unable to provide compatible units. They can request their desired testing through the Online Test Ordering System. All the required testing is performed and the results are pushed electronically in due time.

Reporting Results: 

The entire blood banking process is driven by in-house developed workflow software, employing ISBT 128 barcode systems, and built around the AABB regulations, thereby ensuring 100% traceability. The software identifies, prevents, and notifies errors in the process through user notifications, incidence reporting, and admin reports. This Blood Bank Information System is fully integrated with the hospital’s Management Information System. The requests from the medical staff are generated in HMIS which is transmitted in BBMIS in real time and shown on the screens in the blood center. All the testing is performed at serology benches and results are immediately transmitted in HMIS and visualized on the floors.

 For blood donors, both options are available as they can receive their reports via email in soft copy or by hand as hard copy from DUHS Blood Centre. 

Training and Education Department: 

Capacity building is an ongoing process at Indus Blood Center. All staff undergo intensive structured training in the training center according to the laid down SOPs upon hiring and are authorized to work on live donor and patient material after passing the theory examinations (pass percentage 80%) and practical competencies. 

The Blood Center has a technical laboratory with full audio and visual facilities to train 08 to 10 blood bankers at a time. The lab has all the basic equipment to train the blood bankers in real-time, with a blood bank management information system deployed on training servers.