ILOILO CITY — The Philippine Red Cross Western Visayas regional blood center in this city received PHP3.3 million worth of equipment from the Rotary Club of Jung Ulsan in South Korea on Monday.
Regional blood center manager Dennis Roy Pasadilla said that PRC Iloilo chapter was chosen as recipient of a grant from the Rotary International.
He said the equipment will help improve their operations such as increasing the blood storage capacity of their center. The additional two blood bank refrigerators can store 300 units of blood each.
“We will now be able to give priority to the local government units because we will be able to better segregate the blood intended for them,” he said.
Blood collected from the province and city can now be segregated, thus, partners for the blood program will be prioritized.
According to Pasadilla, the Red Cross South Korea already provided them with two ambulance units two months ago.
He then expressed hope to be able to acquire more grants from the Rotary so they could further improve their services.
The donated equipment included one unit blood bank freezer, two units blood bank refrigerators, a portable tube sealer, a table top tube sealer, one unit of blood mixer, a platelet agitator with incubator, two units of semi- automated plasma freezers, and one unit of 28 placer serologic centrifuge. (PNA)
