Prathama Blood Centre is blood bank situated at Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...

, jointly established in 2000, by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation or the AMC, established in July 1950 under the Bombay Provincial Corporation Act, 1949, is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Ahmedabad.-Vision:...

 and Advanced Transfusion Medicine Research Foundation as non-profit voluntary organization. About 50,000 voluntary blood donors donate blood annually at Prathama which is india's first fully automated blood center.

The blood centre designed to expand in a modular manner to accommodate 150,000 units of blood per annum. Prathama Blood Center is non profit organization registered as Section–25 company and Charitable Trust

Charitable trust

A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes, and is a more specific term than "charitable organization".-United States:...

. 100% Voluntary blood collection. About 125,000 blood

Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....

& blood components are distributed annually without replacement. It has launched its Thalassemia Eradication Program in January 2009 http://174.132.44.98/healthnetwork/member/prathama

External links

• Prathama Blood Center, website
• Architecture of Prathama building
• PRATHAMA BLOOD CENTRE YOUTUBE
• BLOOD DONATION
• Thalassemia Awareness Program
• Types of Blood Donation