1.25b Yuan of T-Bond Funds Used in Support of Blood Center Construction

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, February 25, 2002

1.25b Yuan of T-Bond Funds Used in Support of Blood Center Construction

To strengthen blood management, control diseases spreading through blood and ensure the safe and effective clinical use of blood, China has used 1.25 billion yuan of special Treasury-bond funds in the construction of blood centers in provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and central blood stations in cities and prefectures.

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Epidemic Environment Posed Threat to Blood Security

As sources say, among the over 600 cities across China, only more than 300 of them have set up blood stations. Many of the blood stations are very simple and crude and not in conformity with the basic State-set standard.

Besides, due to the quickening spread of AIDS years by year, the epidemic environment of diseases spreading through blood has posed an increasingly severe threat to blood security.

To ensure the safe use of blood, the State has decided to use a special fund (T-bond fund) within the central budget in the construction of blood stations nationwide.

Safe Blood-collecting & Supply Network To Be Set up

Through building provincial blood centers and improving infrastructure facilities and conditions in central blood stations in cities and prefectures, the country aims to basically set up and improve a safe and sufficient blood-collecting and supply network which covers the whole nation, block the incidence of diseases spreading through clinical blood and guarantee blood quality security and demand.

It is reported that a total 2.25 billion yuan has been invested in the construction of blood stations, which include 1.25 billion yuan of T-bond funds from the central government and 1 billion yuan of local supporting funds.

The project covers the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities nationwide. It involves the construction and renovation of 29 provincial blood centers, 289 prefectural and city blood stations and 141 county-level blood banks in west China. The project will markedly improve Chinese blood collecting and supply institutions' hardware conditions and improve the quality and level of blood test. Completion of the project will basically guarantee the clinical use of blood in 85 percent of China's regions.

China to Promote Donation Work for Blood Safety

More Chinese citizens should become blood donors so that the risk of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis epidemics through blood transfusion can be lowered in China, according to the country's legislators and leading health officials.

China's HIV/AIDS situation has reached a critical point, and transfusion of contaminated blood is especially dangerous. The figure of HIV infection cases in China is estimated to stand between 600,000 and 800,000, about six percent of which were caused by contaminated blood, the Ministry of Health revealed in August this year.

China to Act Sternly Against Illegal Blood Deals

Six percent of some 600,000 HIV carriers in China are victims of illegal blood deals, China's health authorities said, pledging to take stern action against the black-market business.

By PD Online staff member Du Minghua

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