Blood procurement is a very tough job to do. Apart from many guidelines and procedures to understand, searching for a blood donor is very difficult. My staff told me before "It's far much easier to ask a person to give me a ten ringgit bill rather than a pint of blood."
I managed to liase with the police headquarter in Marudi to have a blood donation drive in their working community. After the day ended, we managed to collect 15 pints of blood, mainly blood group O+. It was a great sense of relief. We were so short of O+ blood group currently. Much paperwork needed to be done to make this drive a reality.
We currently only did a forward blood grouping. I am pursuing a reverse blood grouping too. As well as screening cells for GSH.My senior staff Rosidi assisted me much in explaining in detail the steps and reagents required for the bench work.
Big shots are coming to the Hospital again and we're told to dress up and act professionally.
Biochemistry results are in excellent region except magnesium with is much lower than expected.
I learnt Reticulocyte Count and spent much time researching on the issue. I even managed to give a hands-on workshop to my nine staff as to standardize the way of cell counting as the variations among the JTMP are too far apart.
I am still learning the art of interpreting the PBF. Anisocytosis. Anisopoikilocytosis. Nothing made sense to me at first but I am grasping the cells structure. Target cell. Cigar shaped cell. Lacrymocyte.
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