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Upgrading of Services and Facilities. All blood banks/centers shall provide preventive health services such as education and counselling on blood transfusion transmissible diseases. All government hospitals, including those that have been devolved, shall be required to establish voluntary blood donation programs and all private hospitals shall be encouraged to establish voluntary blood donation programs.
The Department, in consultation with the PSHBT and the PSP, shall also establish guidelines for the rational use of blood and blood products.
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