DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i02.021

Pages: 258-260

Introduction: Blood donor deferral means that an individual is not eligible to donate blood or blood components based on the criteria used to protect the health and safety of both donors and transfusion recipient. A prospective donor may be deferred at any point during the collection and testing process. This step is important in ensuring safe transfusion practices to the recipients and the health of the donor, This is a study to categorise the deferrals according to the reasons and to delineate the causes for deferral among the whole blood donors. Methodology: This was a descriptive cross sectional study performed at Department of transfusion medicine at Kamineni academy of medical sciences and research centre at LB nagar, Hyderabad .This study was performed from January 2018 to December 2020. The various reasons for deferral of the whole blood donors from the donations were collected from the donor deferral registry. Results: The donor deferral rates for the years 2018, 2019, 2020 were 8.3%, 7.9% and 4.3% respectively, out of the total donations the highest deferral rate was among the female population the common reason being anemia, the other causes for deferral being alcohol consumption and tattooing and medical causes. Conclusion: We observe from this study that the maximum number of deferrals among the female population were and the cause is preexisting anemia, it is important to advice and counsel the donors before the blood donation to avoid adverse reactions among the donors as well as the recipients, awareness programs and donor motivation programs must be implemented.