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.”
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.
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Thank you Dr Arun V J, Kanniyan Binub for your AI course which helped me create it”
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