- Spanish Town Blood Collection Centre gets additional opening day
KINGSTON, Jamaica. Friday, June 14, 2024: Jamaica will now have the benefit of a new software platform, e-Delphyn Donor, which is to streamline and enhance blood donation and management islandwide.
The announcement was made by Mr. Dunstan Bryan, Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Health & Wellness, who was speaking earlier today at the World Blood Donor Day recognition ceremony.
The ceremony was hosted at the offices of the National Blood Transfusion Service in Kingston under the theme ‘20 Years of Celebrating Giving: Thank you, Blood Donors’.
The software offers donor registration and management; blood drive scheduling and organisation; as well as donor health screening and deferral tracking. These are in addition to blood typing and cross-matching; inventory management for blood products; reporting and analytics for blood donation data; and integration with laboratory and hospital systems.
Through the use of the e-Delphyn, blood banks and transfusion services can streamline their operations, reduce errors, and improve the overall quality of the blood supply.
The permanent secretary also used the occasion to announce a one-day addition to the number of operating days for the Spanish Town Hospital Blood Collection Centre.
“This [additional] day will be Monday. So, beginning Monday, June 25, the Centre will be open every Monday and Saturday,” the PS said.
World Blood Donor Day is observed annually on June 14 to raise global awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion. It also serves to highlight and to celebrate the invaluable contribution of voluntary, unpaid blood donors to national health systems.