Introduction 

The key to safe blood transfusion is having safe and healthy blood donors. To ensure this, NBTC, DGHS & MOHFW GOI has published the guidelines for blood donor selection and blood donor deferral, 2025.

Salient features of these guidelines:

Blood should be accepted only from voluntary, non-remunerated, low-risk, safe, and healthy donors.

Efforts should be directed towards encouraging and retaining an adequate number of healthy repeat donors.

Blood donors should be appropriately recognised and thanked for their contribution.

Initiative:

As it takes great efforts in mobilizing blood donors and bring them to blood donation site, it is up most important to spread information about parameters of healthy donors. This leads to decrease loss of time and efforts required to bring the unfit blood donors to the blood donation site. And this encourage the society about safe blood practices for both the blood donors and blood recipients. As a part of this initiatives, I present this booklet to all the stakeholders of blood transfusion services including the blood donors, blood donation motivators, the blood donation camp organizers, the blood donor counsellors, the social worker working in the blood centres, the blood centre employees, the state blood transfusion council members, the regulators and the law makers to create and promote environment for safe blood across the country and the world. In this booklet is prepared as an aid to the guidelines for the blood donor selection and donor deferral, 2025 by NBTC, DGHS & MOHFW GOI. The potential blood donors can refer this pictorial booklet to understand and self-aware the parameters of the safe blood and take conscious decision to participate in the safe blood drive. Also by referring this booklet, the blood donors are motivated to share right and complete own health details to blood centre staffs and there by contributes in the safe blood drive. In this booklet, the blood donors are encouraged to share the details asked in each of the health parameters that makes the blood safe to the recipient and the donation safe to the blood donors.

Contributors:

I am thankful to Mr. Pawan Sagar, who helped in creating pictorial information, to Dr. Rupam Sharma, Mr. Mayank Vaghela, Mr. Rajesh Mayawanshi for proof reading and suggestions. I have used the published guidelines for the blood donor selection and donor deferral, 2025 by NBTC, DGHS & MOHFW GOI for this booklet.

Copyright Information:

In this booklet, many images were taken from online using google search engine and also used/ created from canva platform. This booklet is distributed for the purpose of the safe blood supply and is not for commercial purpose. Copy right of all information used in this booklet in the format an and context used in this booklet lies with Dr. Bipin Patel.

Note:

Numbers written in subscript in this booklet is corresponds to the serial number of the guidelines for blood donor selection and blood donor deferral, 2025.