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Dr Indu M: Pre-Donation Counselling is Where Blood Safety Truly Begins
Dec 24, 2025, 12:47

Dr Indu M: Pre-Donation Counselling is Where Blood Safety Truly Begins

Dr Indu M, Administrative Head at Jeeva Janki Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Pre-donation counselling is where blood safety truly begins.

Recently, during routine counselling, a young donor shared his reason for donating:
“I just want to know if I’m HIV negative.”

Dr Indu M: Pre-Donation Counselling is Where Blood Safety Truly Begins

This moment matters.

Blood donation is sometimes misunderstood as a screening tool, but donations made for test-seeking purposes can endanger recipients—particularly during the window period, when infections may not yet be detectable.

Structured, empathetic pre-donation counselling can:

Identify a high-risk motivation

Explain the limitations of screening tests

Educate about ethical responsibility toward patients

Guide the donor to appropriate HIV testing services instead

The conversation was respectful and non-judgmental. The donor chose to defer donation and left better informed—protecting both himself and future recipients.

Pre-donation counselling protects two lives:

The donor, through education and safe testing pathways

The recipient, through reduced transfusion-transmitted risk

Advanced testing is vital—but no technology can replace meaningful human counselling.

Safe blood is not just collected.
It is counselled, assessed, and ethically given.

Image courtesy: Generative AI,chatgpt
Thank you Dr Arun V J, Kanniyan Binub for your AI course which helped me create it”

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