The past, present and future of the blood service of the Armed Forces
Ryzhkov, S.V.; Chechetkin, A.V.; Popova, N.N.; Kuz'min, N.S.
Voenno-Meditsinskii Zhurnal 323(12): 61
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-9050 PMID: 12602267 Document Number: 547953
Creation of the civil blood service permitted to supply the military treatment-and-prophylactic institutions with blood, to draw up the plan of support in the event of hostilities. The blood service of the USSR (Russia) Armed Forces originates from 1962 when the blood transfusion stations (BTS) were created in the military districts and navy. The departments of blood transfusion (DBT) were formed in the central hospitals and Military Medical Academy and the stations of blood storage and transfusion not in the regular staff were organized in the garrison hospitals. In 2001 the Minister of Defense of Russia approved the program "Development of RF MD blood service during the period of 2002-2006". The aim of the program is to improve the quality and to raise the effectiveness of transfusion therapy for the patients, members of servicemen' families treated in the military treatment-and-prophylactic institutions. It is necessary to intensify the control of blood and donor service, to improve its material and technical basis, to bring the material and normative basis into line with the functioning documents of the RF Ministry of Health, to train the transfusion specialists.