The Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh has been conferred the prestigious award of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) for the year 2018.The award was presented to Prof Neelam Marwaha and Prof. R R Sharma by the President of the ISBT at the 35th International Congress of ISBT in Toronto, Canada.
It is in recognition of the departments’ service to the region; role in Voluntary Blood Donation, implementation of state of the art technologies for blood safety like Nucleic Acid Testing for viral markers and the role in educational and human resource training and research.
The department is designated as the apex training center for blood safety and quality management (human resource development) in blood banks by the National Blood Transfusion Council, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (MoHFW, GoI)
The Director, PGI, Prof. Jagat Ram congratulated Prof. Neelam Marwaha and the entire staff of the department for their excellent teamwork which has led to the achievement.
