Blood Bank

Blood Bank of Aga Khan University Hospital is manned by a team of experienced and fully trained medical technologists who work under the supervision of full time hematologist to provide quality service round the clock.

It possesses state of the art equipment for separation of blood components, Their storage & screening.

Apheresis machines are available for plasma exchange, single donor platelet extraction and to obtain stem cells for autologous transplantation.

Since no professional donors are accepted the blood bank depends on exchange donations from healthy relatives and friends of admitted patients. However this does not generally fulfill the requirements, hence regular blood camps are organized in collaboration with Karachi lions club for voluntary blood donations.

Every single donation is screened for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV & VDRL.

The department in order to maintain its quality service partiiciipates in various external quality assurance programmes.