GCGMH opens new
modern blood bank
TAGBILARAN CITY,
Bohol, November 8 (PIA)— Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH)
inches its way to be true to its mantra, when it opened its new hospital blood
bank, to serve more Boholanos, in fitting ecumenical services November 7.
A blood
bank is a facility where blood gathered from blood donation is stored and
preserved for later use in blood transfusion. Aside from storage, a blood bank also
performs proper testing to reduce the risk of transfusion related adverse
events, and the systematic separation of blood components for specific blood
transfusion needs of patients.
Rev. Fr.
Abelardo Omping, PACEM and GCGMH in-house preacher Pastor Felix Bernaldez
joined forces during the blessing and launching of the new blood bank which is
or spacious, better equipped and more modern blood collection and storage
center inside Bohol’s lead blood service facility.
Now
adopting a brand of service in its mantra “so kind, so Gallares,” the only
tertiary public hospital which used to be limping with allegations of inefficiency,
mismanagement and lousy care has now picked up pace to claim its rightful place
in its promise to provide the highest standards of hospital service to its
constituents.
Hospital
Chief Dr. Mutya Kismet Macuno congratulated the hospital’s pathology department
headed by Dr. Anette Salillas for the momentous and grandiose milestone with
exponential effects to their patients.
“This means
another [opportunity to] manifest our commitment to help patients in need,” the
hospital director said.
Meanwhile,
Dr Salillas stressed that the new development only shows how Gallares is
committed to provide the highest standards of care.
“The bigger
and more improved blood bank marks another milestone in GCGMH promise of
service to the Boholano people,” she said.
“Small, the
steps maybe, but by these, we get closer to where we want. With every step, we
can travel farther,” she pointed out.
Dr. Macuno
then recalled how Gallares was hunched with issues of unavailability of blood
and the request process if there are, fells like going past seven hills.
Macuno, who runs trails, said she knows how tough it can get past one hill.
When we
were faced with the challenge, we rise up to the occasion, faced the challenge
and struggled to win over the challenge, Macuno describes her general stint at
the hospital.
She
recalled that it was once Dr Juanita Arcay, the pathology department head then,
who conceptualized the blood bank and achieved the status as one of the most
sought after residency training hubs.
Now
equipped too with a modern apheresis machine, the blood center now has a
capacity to receive blood from a patient or donor and separate it into its
various blood components: plasma, platelets, white blood cells and red blood
cells.
Or the
machine can only take the needed blood component, and return the other
components to the body.
The new
blood bank, with its two standing refrigerators, can accommodate about 400
blood units a day, and the apheresis machine even expands the blood bank’s
string capacity as it can already extract platelets via the machine which needs
no refrigeration anymore.
Cancer and
dengue patients specifically need huge storage of blood units which often
congests their refrigerators, according to Blood Bank nurse Nickson Felix Epe. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
JEWEL OF A
HOSPITAL. From a public hospital that earned rants due to inefficiency in the
past, GCGMH is now acclaimed one of the best jewels in the region, and the
opening up of its new blood bank asserts its stake as the lead blood service
facility committed to face the challenge of service, said hospital director Dr.
Mutya Kismet Macuno. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
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