TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior official in Irans Blood Transfusion Organization said the blood taken from the donors in the country is of the highest standards compared with others in the region.Irans Blood Transfusion Organization enjoys the highest scientific and operational standards in the region in providing healthy blood supplies and the officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) have also confirmed it, Director of Irans Blood Transfusion Organization for International Cooperation Fariba Seiqali said in a ceremony held in Tehran on Wednesday to introduce the Organization as the WHOs partner in training and research in blood healthiness affairs.
She said that Irans Blood Transfusion Organization has held different training courses for the transfusion experts of the regional and neighboring countries, including Afghanistan, and sent 2,000 bags of blood to Somalia when the country was entangled in famine and starvation.
Iran is standing among the best 5 countries in providing healthy blood supplies to the patients in need of blood transfusion, an Iranian official announced late 2012.
"Having executed an intelligent system and preventing the supply of blood products beyond the standard time (with regard to the expiration time and date), Iran was announced by the WHO as to be among the first 5 countries in improving the safety level of blood supplies," Director-General of Iran's Blood Transfusion Organization Gholamreza Tougeh said at a seminar in Tehran at the time.
Iran has taken wide strides in science and technology, particularly in medical and medicinal fields, in recent years.
A senior Iranian official announced in August 2012 that the country has managed to produce blood-transfusion kits and Computed Tomography Scanning (CT Scan) tubes despite the western states' threats to sanction and withhold the sale of the two products to Iran.
"The foreign states have threatened us that they won't sell us laboratory kits" but the Pasteur Institute of Iran has managed to produce the blood kits needed for the country and it will achieve the Euro Standard in the near future, Deputy Iranian Health Minister Mostafa Qaneyee told FNA at the time.
Qanayee who is also the head of Iran's Pasteur Institute announced in 2011 that the institute plans to produce human vaccines for rabies and hemophilia diseases.
"The center (Pasteur Institute), in cooperation with its affiliated knowledge-based companies, has started a project to produce rabies and hemophilia human vaccines," he told FNA at the time.
He expressed the hope that his institute would start mass-production of the vaccines within the next 2-3 years, adding that the products will be sold not only in domestic, but also in foreign markets.
By Fars News Agency
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