Dr Amarjit Kaur, Professor and Head, Department of Transfusion Medicine, said that the concept will benefit more than one patient, since one unit of blood is broken into components. She said DMCH has the facility of separating blood into different components required by different patients.

She added that the Department of Transfusion Medicine is providing components to inside patients, as well as those in the out-patient departments. Patients suffering from chronic anemia due to kidney failure, malignancy, bleeding and thalassemia need a large quantity of blood. Plasma is necessary for patients with bleeding disorder and long term liver damage, and platelets for the patients suffering from cancer, said Dr Amarjit Kaur.