Shanghai To Become Central Point for Blood Analysis
October 7th, 2008 by Rich
China, as we covered in the recent post Pattern of HIV Changes in China, has had its fair share of problems when it comes blood collection, monitoring, and distribution.
It was an issue that Kaiser Family Blog post China’s Blood Supply Not Being Monitored Properly address, but more recently we saw this first hand during the earthquae relief when cities were not initially allowed to send blood from their banks to the affected regions. It was in part a logistics problem (lack of cold chain), but it was primarily a system by which prevented regional contaminatoins.
a process that the new system will hopefully prevent:
All eight umbrella branches of the Shanghai Blood Center had been linked with a sophisticated information system, said officials from the Shanghai Health Bureau.
The clinics will store the blood while samples are being screened, before distributing it to hospitals that need it.
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May 17th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I am foreigner staying at Hangzhou,china. would like to help small childerens who lost parens during sichuan earthquake.
regards
May 18th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Hi,
I am a foreigner living in Shanghai where I study chinese…my chinese is conversational and I would love the opportunity to help any way that I can.
Please let me know if you have any other teams going.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I am a chinese.Recently we established a NGO which wantS to help the orphans and disabled children in the WenChuan earthquack victims in SiChuan province China.Form your webside I knew that Care For Children also has the same vision as us.So I try to contact with them.But then i failed.Because i can not open their webside.I need you to help me to contact with care for children.Thank you!