Prathama is a Non-profit blood bank that runs India’s largest and most modern blood center. It is India’s first fully automated blood centre with robotics, barcode systems and fully integrated Enterprise Resource Planning software. Prathama provides low-cost blood services to poor and needy in India. 50,000 voluntary donors donate blood annually at Prathama.
India is managing about 5.5 million units of blood annually where the need is around 10 million as on date. Of this only 10% are women donors. Countries like Thailandd, Zimbabwe has registered about...Read More Posted by Prathama Blood Centre on Fri, Jun 14, 2013(3231)
Ahmedabad located in western India is thickly populated with 5 million population. 2.3% of the population donate blood. Roughly 166000 units of blood collected annually in Ahmedabad alone. It is beli...Read More Posted by Prathama Blood Centre on Tue, Jun 12, 2012(4405)
Prathama Blood Centre Ahmedabad celebrates World Blood Donor Day every year since 2005. It has popularized the event in city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India which is having highest 3.6% blood donor ra...Read More Posted by Prathama Blood Centre on Mon, Jun 13, 2011(7181)
PRATHAMA BLOOD CENTRE
8th May 2011. WORLD THALASSEMIA DAY & THALASSEMIA WEEK.
On the occasion of World Thalassemia Day, 8th May 2011; Prathama Blood Centre has planned series of activi...Read More Posted by Prathama Blood Centre on Fri, May 6, 2011(4672)
2010-06-14. Ahmedabad.
Prathama has started its celebrations of WBDD 2010 at 10am on 14th Jnue 2010 by felicitating 25 time voluntary blood donors and 20 time voluntary blood donors with...Read More Posted by Prathama Blood Centre on Mon, Jun 14, 2010(3886)
According to the World Health Organisation South Eastern Asia's estimated blood requirement is about 15 million units, but collects annually about 9 million units, leaving a gap of 6 million. India w...Read More Posted by Prathama Blood Centre on Fri, Sep 25, 2009(5825)