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.
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(US$272.18 million) has
been invested in the construction of blood stations, which include
1.25 billion yuan(US$151.21 million) of T-bond funds from the
central government and 1 billion yuan(US$120.97 million) 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.
(
February 25, 2002)