ABSTRACT
Introduction: Blood transfusion saves millions of lives.Donors undergo certain stringent selection criteria to ensuresafe and quality blood and blood products. During such processit is likely that donors may get deferred either temporarily orpermanently. Deferral leads to precious loss of donors andblood units. Morever rates and reasons of deferral vary fromregion to region. The aim of the study was to analyse rates andreasons of donor deferral in our hospital.Material and Methods: It is a retrospective study done overa period of 6 years from January 2012 to December 2017.Details of donors who were deferred either temporarily orpermanently during the study period was collected from thedonor registry.Results: Out of the 15,807 donors who registered for blooddonation during study period, 971 donors were deferreddue to several reasons both temporarily and permanently.Total deferral rate of 6% as comparable to other studies inliterature.Conclusion: Knowledge about rates and reasons of donordeferral may guide medical personnel to focus on donorscreening. Proper follow up measures can be carried out incase of temporarily deferred donors to bring them back todonor pool.