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Annual Operational Plan 2019

The document outlines the annual operational plan and requirements for Gonzales General Hospital blood station. Key details include: 1) Gonzales General Hospital is authorized to store and issue blood/products and perform testing, though it is not licensed as a blood center. 2) The blood station must join the local blood services network to ensure adequate/safe supply. 3) Regional Health Directors authorize blood stations according to standards like having a medical technologist, blood refrigerator, and contingency/maintenance plans.

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Annual Operational Plan 2019

The document outlines the annual operational plan and requirements for Gonzales General Hospital blood station. Key details include: 1) Gonzales General Hospital is authorized to store and issue blood/products and perform testing, though it is not licensed as a blood center. 2) The blood station must join the local blood services network to ensure adequate/safe supply. 3) Regional Health Directors authorize blood stations according to standards like having a medical technologist, blood refrigerator, and contingency/maintenance plans.

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ANNUAL OPERATIONAL PLAN

Gonzales General Hospital is a private hospital which has not been licensed as a blood
center but has been authorized by the Department of Health to store and issue blood
and blood products, and perform compatibility testing, when necessary.

Planning, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the national advocacy and


promotion of activities are based on the guidelines of the Department of Health.

Which will establish criteria as indicators to monitor the progress or success in


meeting the targets of the annual operational plan or program.

Monitor and evaluate all activities of the Program and recommend ways by which
targets could be met.

BLOOD STATION

All other hospitals and PNRC chapters rendering blood services not classified as a
Blood Bank/Center or Blood Collection Unit may be allowed to store blood and blood
products, subject to regulation by the BRL. Further, duly–authorized Blood Stations
(BS) shall be properly identified and specified for each Blood Bank/Center like
Gonzales General Hospital which serves as a blood station under the supervision of
Paulino J. Garcia Memorial Medical Center Blood Bank.

NETWORKING

The blood station is required to join the Blood Services Network of their respective
locality to ensure an adequate and safe blood supply.

Blood Station Staffs shall have clear arrangements for continuing staff training on
blood banking and rational blood use, sharing of manpower and other resources.

AUTHORIZATION OF BLOOD STATIONS

The Regional Health Directors, including the Regional Health Director of the National
Capital Region, shall authorize Blood Stations according to the following standards
and procedures:

1. The Blood Station is located only within hospital premises, government or private;
or within the premises of the Philippine National Red Cross chapters.

2. The Blood Station shall be under the responsibility of a PRC–registered medical


technologist with a valid certificate of registration and a valid professional license.

3. The Blood Station shall have at least one properly functioning blood refrigerator
with twenty–four (24) hours power supply.
4. There shall be a written and readily available contingency plan for all Blood Stations
in case of problems such as instrument or equipment breakdown.

5. The Blood Station shall have a regular schedule of maintenance and service of all
equipment and instruments used in blood bank services.

6. Blood shall be issued only to patients confined within the hospital that houses the
station or to hospitals within the area.

7. The authority to operate a Blood Station shall be renewed yearly, signed by the
Regional Health Director and issued to the agency that operated the Blood
Bank/Center that will distribute the blood bags to the station.

8. The Blood Station shall be visited at least once a year by the head of the Blood
Bank/Center that distributes blood to the station or by a duly designated Blood
Bank/Center health staff. A record of such visit shall be open for inspection by the
BRL or its duly authorized representative.

9. The authority to operate the Blood Station shall be revoked by the Regional Health
Director should blood storage, handling, issuance, distribution or disposal to be found
to be below the standards set by the BRL in its Standard Operating Procedure Manual
on Blood Services (Section 38).

STAFF DEVELOPMENT PLAN

The Blood Station shall provide staff development plan like trainings and seminars for
all categories of personnel.

BLOOD DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORT REQUIREMENTS:

It is the responsibility of the transfusing hospitals to provide the necessary request


and blood transport materials for patients requesting for blood to the Blood Bank/
Blood Centers.

The Blood Station shall provide the materials like ice packs and containers needed for
transport when asking Blood Banks and blood centers for blood to be issued only to
the representative of the authorize Blood Station staff .

RECORDING, REPORTING AND DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

The Blood Station shall follow standard recording, reporting and documentation
formats and procedures and other documentation requirements of the BRL.

All entries in the requisition forms, logbooks, reports and other written documents
should be certified true and correct, according to the blood station staff’s personal
knowledge.
BIOSAFETY

Safety precautions shall be followed in the Blood Station at all times. This shall
include, but shall not be limited to, prominent display of easily understandable
posters on safety procedures; wearing of protective clothing and gadgets such as
laboratory gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protectors; and adherence to clear and
acceptable procedures and physical arrangements for decontamination and disposal of
contaminated materials such as blood, equipment, clothing and other supplies.

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