Blood plasma extractor

Patients in need of blood are receiving quicker treatment following MTN Uganda’s donation of an automated blood component extractor to Uganda Blood Transfusion services (UBTS) which mines components faster. Prior to the donation, UBTS used manual methods of blood component extraction which took about 30 minutes to extract samples from about 10 units compared to the one minute using the automated machine. The process, Grace Otekat head of laboratories UBTS, says was slow leading to equally tortoise-paced service provision to hospitals and patients in need of blood components for treatment especially those up country. Otekat says the machine has now…