QuestionsQuestions (DOH ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 2010-0002)
It is issued pursuant to the National Blood Services Act of 1994 (RA 7719) to provide policies and guidelines for the establishment and operation of Local Blood Councils that support the National Voluntary Blood Services Program for blood safety and adequacy, quality care, and patient safety.
It applies to all community-based organizations established and operated to promote voluntary blood donation and to support the collection and provision of safe and adequate blood and blood components under the National Voluntary Blood Services Program.
Every region, province, and highly urbanized city should establish a Local Blood Council. It is encouraged in component cities, districts, municipalities, and barangays.
It is a non-profit, non-governmental, multi-sectoral group composed of members from government and private sectors committed to support the blood program. Its role is to plan and implement a local blood donation program in accordance with DOH policies and guidelines.
Representatives from various sectors such as LGUs, national government agencies, local health services, hospitals, PNRC and Dugong Pinoy chapters, health professional associations, schools, military and police establishments, civic/religious organizations, business and agricultural sectors, mass media, and other relevant community sectors.
(1) Memorandum of Agreement among member organizations designating the lead agency and custodian of funds; (2) created by an ordinance of the appropriate Sanggunian or by an Executive Order of the local government executive; or (3) attached to the Regional Blood Council and the National Council for Blood Services.
The Executive Board shall have at least 11 members.
President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, PRO, Auditor, and such other officers as they deem necessary.
A Local Blood Council is not allowed to set up or operate a blood service facility.
(1) Participate in formulating the local blood donation program; (2) plan and implement public education, advocacy, and donor recruitment; (3) organize mobile blood collection in coordination with blood centers/authorized BCUs; (4) spearhead/assist in fund sourcing and fund raising; (5) strengthen linkages of local hospitals and emergency obstetric care facilities (BEmONC/CEmONC) with the Blood Center(s); and (6) coordinate and monitor implementation of the local blood donation program.
The AO lists three strategies: (1) Public Education; (2) Recruitment of blood donors; and (3) Mobile Blood Donations.
The messages must motivate healthy, low-risk donors to give blood; discourage high-risk exposure/high-risk behavior from donating; and give opportunity for self-deferral or self-exclusion, including informing the Blood Center confidentially not to use donated blood.
Blood shall be collected from voluntary non-remunerated donors, with no payments in cash or in kind that may motivate withholding of high-risk information; such blood may compromise blood product safety and patient safety.
Blood donation activities must be conducted in strategic locations by Authorized Blood Collection Units in coordination with the Regional Blood Center; mobile blood donation sessions are done in various community sites and should coordinate with the blood collection authorities and the Regional Blood Center.
It must be included in the Work Financial Plan of the LGU (referenced in DILG Memo Circular No. 99-133, August 4, 1999), with resources provided to the Local Blood Council and implementing organizations in accordance with the approved LGU budget.
All requests and issuances of blood products shall be between the hospital Blood Services Facility (BSF) or Clinical Laboratory and the Blood Center.