Regional Blood Centre, Karachi

The Regional Blood Centre (RBC) Karachi was inaugurated on November 27, 2019, by the Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho along with German Consul General in Karachi Eugen Wollfarth, Christian Kraemer, Regional Director KfW, Frankfurt, and Wolfgang Moellers, director KFW Pakistan. It has been outsourced to Fatimid Foundation under public-private partnership to promote quality transfusion services for the people of Karachi. The RBC has been developed by the German government grant through KFW-German Development Bank to the Safe Blood Transfusion Project. The RBC Karachi is equipped with modern, sophisticated medical equipment and has well trained and qualified staff to ensure the safe transfusion of blood as per the international standards. RBC has a capacity of collecting 50,000 blood donations per year and serves as blood procurement and distribution centre ensuring quality systems to regulate all activities which involve mobilization and retention of voluntary and regular blood d...