SJM Blood Centre is the transfusion medicine and blood banking unit within Basaveshwara Medical College and Hospital in Chitradurga, Karnataka. It supports the hospital’s clinical services by collecting, testing, storing, and supplying blood and blood components for patients requiring transfusions during surgery, trauma care, childbirth, and treatment of various medical conditions.

Services

The blood centre is part of the hospital’s Department of Transfusion Medicine and provides services related to:

• Whole blood collection and voluntary blood donation

• Blood component separation and storage

• Blood transfusion support for hospitalized patients

• Laboratory services associated with transfusion medicine

• Specialized blood component preparation for clinical needs, such as plasma and clotting factor-related components, as described by the hospital.

Hospital setting

The blood centre operates within Basaveshwara Medical College and Hospital, a multi-specialty teaching hospital established in 2000. According to the institution, the hospital serves as both a healthcare facility and a medical education center, with numerous specialty departments, intensive care units, operating theatres, emergency services, and research activities.