Union Govt revises processing charges for blood, components

Hoshiarpur, June 21

The Directorate General of Health Services (Government of India) has issued revised guidelines related to processing charges for blood and its components.

The non-government blood centres can now charge Rs 1,550 per unit for whole human blood as well as packed red cells. Earlier, the the processing charges were Rs 1,450 per unit .The government run blood centres would charge Rs 1,100 from now onwards.

Blood centres in the non government sector can charge Rs 11,000 for providing platelets by single donor platelet method .In the revised guidelines, private sector blood centres have been allowed to charge Rs 1,200 and Rs 500 per unit more if blood is tested by NAT or by Chemiluminescence method.

Moreover, it has been made mandatory for all blood centres to provide blood and its components without processing charges to patients of thalasemia, haemophilia, sickle cell anaemia or blood dyscrasia.