Exploring the unseen effect of COVID 19 pandemic on blood transfusion services in a tertiary care centre.

Transfus Apher Sci · 2023 · PMC9444304 · PMID 36088214

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It was compared between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods using the chi-square test which showed an increasing trend for all infections and the difference was statistically highly significant for Syphilis (p<0.0001) in 2020 and for HBsAg (p<0.05), HCV (p<0.05), and Syphilis (p<0.01) in 2021.

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The issue of blood components showed a decreasing trend and the decline ranged between 48% and 62% for various components in 2020 and 29–35% in 2021 ( Table 2 ).

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The seroprevalence of transfusion-transmitted infections in blood donors showed an increasing trend for HIV, HCV, HBsAg and Syphilis reactivity as shown in Fig. 3 .

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