• Department came into existence since January 2010.
• Initially government of Gujarat had sanctioned 3 posts of Professor, Associate Professor & Assistant Professor.
• IHBT department had MCI nspection on 16th January 2013 for starting degree course of MD (ImmunoHematology & Blood Transfusion) & Letter of Permission [MCI-94(22)/2012-Med/108108/29-03-2013] was given for TWO Post graduates seats from academic year July 2013.
• LOP letter from MCI
• IHBT department has been granted MCI recognition in April 2017.
• Recognition letter from MCI

• To provide safe blood and blood components to the patients admitted in New Civil Hospital, Surat.
• To develop the department for post graduate students.
• To increase facilities so as to cater the future needs of the hospital.
• To Increase the voluntary blood donation activities & goal to achieve near 100% voluntary blood donations.
• To increase the Annual blood collection by making awareness campaign for blood donors.
• To start training centre for laboratory technicians for blood banking.

• To impart knowledge to post graduate students & laboratory technicians.
• Organise CME, Workshops, Program for voluntary blood donation camp organizers
• To disseminate knowledge for upgradation of faculties and resident doctors and technical staff of blood bank.
• Regular participation of Residents in various workshops, CMEs held in various parts of country for upgradation of their skill and knowledge.They will be sent as per their curriculum for rotational training in allied departments & if due to non availability of institutional facilities like BMT, Stem cell transplantation and Hemato-oncology, they will be sent for training to GCRI ahmedabad & IHBT dept Ahmedabad.

1. DR Amrish N Pandya has to his credit 15 research papers. He is UG & PG examiner in VNSGU as well as other universities of Gujarat state, Maharastra & Rajsthan in Pathology & IHBT. He is PhD guide in pathology subject since 2011 & having 5 students registered under him up to 2016.He is a reviewer in pathology & Immunohematology & blood transfusion in some of the pathology journals.
2. Dr Mayur Jarag , associate professor IHBT joined on 31th august 2012 to his credit 2 research papers & he is registered as PhD student under Dr Amrish Pandya as PhD guide.
3. Dr Jitendra Patel, Assistant professor, IHBT joined in 24-10- 2011, to his credit 9 research papers. He is interested in aphaeresis procedures, stem cell procedures, He is also interested in technical & quality related aspects of blood banking.
4. Dr Sangita Wadhwani, Blood transfusion officer, is since 1993 in the field of blood banking & keenly supervising the blood bank.

1. AN Pandya, MM Patel. Relationship of oral cancer with age, sex, site distribution and habits. Indian journal of Pathol and Microbiol. April 2004; 47:195-7.
2. AN Pandya, N Bagla, MM Patel. Microfilaria in cytology smear: real culprits or trapped accidentally by needles? A study of 10 cases, Correspondence. Cytopathology. December 2005; 16:316-7.
3. Dr Hemali J Tailor, Dr Amrish Pandya. Clinicohistopathological correlation of Leprosy. Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprology. 2008; 74(2): 174-6.
4. AN Pandya, MM Patel. Acute Childhood Leukemia: Our Institutional Experience Regarding Type, Age, Sex Distribution & Laboratory Findings. Indian Medical Gazette. September 2008; 339-42.
5. AN Pandya, Arpita Nishal, Hemali Tailor. Clear Cell Sarcoma Diagnosis by Fine Needle Aspiration: Cytologic, Histologic and Immunohistological features- Literature Review- a case report. Indian medical gazette. December 2009; 489-92.
6. AN Pandya, RD Patel, Pinal Shah, Prashant J Patel. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of breast, importance of differentiation from collagenous spherulosis by FNAC - A Case report. Journal of Cytology. April 2010; 27(2):69-70.
7. AN Pandya, Arpita Nishal, Hemali tailor. A Case of Malignant Low Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma and Review of the Literature. Natl J Community Med. May 2011; 2(1):152-4.
8. AN Pandya, Arpita Nishal, Hemali tailor. Invasive micro papillary carcinoma of the breast: a case Report. Natl J Community Med. May 2011; 2(1):155-7.
9. AN Pandya, MM Patel, Jigna Modi. Cervical Pap smear study and its utility in cancer screening, to specify the strategy for cervical cancer control in our set up. Natl J Community Med. May 2011; 2(1):49-51.
10. Pandya AN, Shah NP. Comparative evaluation of Robinson’s Cytological grading with Elston and Ellis’ Nottingham Modification of Bloom Richardson Histopathology Grading for Breast carcinoma. Natl J Community Med. 2012; 3(3): 491-51.
11. Amrish pandya,Tejas Patel, Neelam Shah. Comparative utility of Bone Marrow Aspiration and Bone marrow Biopsy. Journal of evolution of medical and dental science. December-2012; Vol.1, issue 6,: 987-93.
12. Pandya AN, Neelam Shah. Breast fine needle aspiration cytology reporting: a Study of application of probabilistic approach. Indian Medical Gazette.2013.
13. Patel J, Nishal A, Pandya A, Patel P, Wadhwani S. Factors influencing yield of platelet aphaeresis using continuous flow cell separator. Int J Med Sci Public Health 2013; 2:323-326.
14. Deepshikha Dave1, Amrish N. Pandya2: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FOUR HEMATOLOGY ANALYZERS : J of Evolution of Med and Dent Sci/ eISSN- 2278-4802,pISSN-2278-4748/Vol.3/Issue12 /Mar 24,2014:3107-13.
15. Dr A N Pandya,Dr Manik Agarwal,Dr Deepshikha Dave: RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH AS A SCREENING TOOL IN CLASSIFYING MICROCYTIC HYPOCHROMIC ANEMIAS. J.of evolution of med and Dent Sci/eISSN-2278-4802,pISSN-2278-4748/vol.3/issue /june 2014; 6559-65
16. Patel Jitendra N, Nishal Arpita J. Single Donor Platelet versus Random Donor Platelet concentrates in patients with thrombocytopenia – our experience. Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2009;1(2):121-35.
17. Jitendra Patel, B M Jha, Bhavna Gamit, Kunal J Prajapati. Hemoglobin E disorders in South Gujarat – A study of 35 cases. National Journal of Community Medicine 2012;3(1):66-70.
18. Jitendra Patel, B M Jha, Arpita Nishal, Shailesh Lavana, Ritesh Shah, Reena Dudhat. Haemoglobin A2 Level – A comparative study between patients with malaria and healthy individuals. National Journal of Medical Research 2012;2(1):63-66.
19. B M Jha, Mubin Patel, Komal Patel, Jitendra Patel. A study on cervical Pap smear examination in patients living with HIV. National Journal of Medical Research 2012;2(1):81-84.
20. Jha BM, Shah R, Patel J. Effectiveness of image guided fine needle aspiration cytology in cases of deep seated lesions. Int J Med Sci Public Health 2013; 2:465-468.
21. Patel J, Nishal A, Pandya A, Patel P, Wadhwani S. Factors influencing yield of platelet aphaeresis using continuous flow cell separator. Int J Med Sci Public Health 2013; 2:323-326.
22. Snehal Patel, Jitendra Patel, Arpit Patel, A. N. Pandya, Kruti Raja, Gopi Dobariya, Sangita Wadhwani, Mayur Jarag. The Study of Deferred Blood Donors at Tertiary Level Hospital Based Blood Bank of South Gujarat. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 2015; Vol. 4, Issue 27, April 02; Page: 4590-4598.
23. Rakesh P. Pimpaldara, Arpit C. Patel, Jitendra Patel, Snehal Patel, A. N. Pandya, Sangita Wadhwani. A Study of Irregular Antibodies in 200 Multi-Transfused Patients. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 2015; Vol. 4, Issue 73, September 10; Page: 12659-12667, DOI: 10.14260/jemds/2015/1825
24. Arpit C Patel, Jitendra Patel, Snehal G Patel, Gopi Dobariya, Kruti Raja, Amrish N Pandya. The study of platelet volume indices in platelet aphaeresis procedure: an experience of 271 platelet aphaeresis procedures. National Journal of Medical Research July September 2015; 5(3): 207-10.
25. Patel SG, Patel JN, Patel AC, Raja KA, Dobariya GH, Pandya AN. Blood Donor notification and counseling of reactive test result in Blood Bank of South Gujarat: A better approach to prevent reactive donors from donating blood again. Glob J Transfus Med 2016;1:57-60
26. Dobariya GH, Raja KA, Unagar CA, Pandya AN, Patel JN, Jarag MA, et al. Prevalence and trends of transfusion transmitted infections among blood donors of blood bank attached to government hospital of South Gujarat, India. Int J Res Med Sci 2016;4:4123-7.
27. Raja KA, Dobariya GH, Unagar CA, Pandya AN, Patel JN, Wadhwani SJ. Frequency and distribution of ABO and Rh blood groups among blood donors in tertiary care hospital of South Gujarat, India. Int J Res Med Sci. 2016; 4(12): 5377-5381. doi:10.18203/2320-6012.
28. Unagar CA, Patel SG, Patel KA, Pandya AN, Jarag MA, Patel JN, et al. Transfusion effect of random donor platelet and single donor platelet in thrombocytopenic patients at tertiary care hospital of South Gujarat. Int J Res Med Sci 2017;5:3033-7.
29. Tailor HJ, Patel PR, Pandya AN, Mangukiya S. Study of various hematological parameters and iron status among voluntary blood donors. Int J Med. Public Health. 2017; 7(1): 61-5.

1. Platelet Volume Indices & Platelet Apheresis
2. Donor deferral pattern
3. TTI prevalence
4. ABO Rh blood group distribution
5. Beta thalassemia in blood donors
6. Parabombay blood group

• 2nd prize - highest voluntary blood collection in government blood banks - year 2009-10.
• Received trophy from Thalessemia awareness program Gujarat to provide free blood to thalessemia patients during year 2013-14.
• Gradulally annual blood collection is increasing to cater needs of New Civil Hospital Surat.
• 3rd year resident -Dr Arpit Patel got runner up award for his poster presentation (Platelet volume indices & platelet apheresis) in Annual National Conference of ISTM at Ahmedabnad (14th - 16th November 2014).

• FDA License No: G-710 which is valid upto 31/12/2021.
• Download link - licence_g710_311221.pdf
• Average blood units consumed daily: 50 blood units (year 2017).
• Facilities of blood components available:Yes

* Total 100 apheresis procedures done for Therapeutic plasma exchange of 20 patients (including one pediatric patient of 11 years) of New Civil Hospital, Surat till date.

* Enrolled in Pharmacovigilance (Haemovigilance) programme of India since - 2014

* Reported no

1. Seminar Room (50 seats capacity)
2. LCD projector
3. Interactive white magnetic teaching board
4. Digital visual presenter
5. Digital Camera
6. Computers with internet facility
7. Department Library (Having latest advanced books & journals)
8. Immunohaematology lab
9. Laptops
10. PG Research Lab
11. Demonstration Room
12. Store

1. Blood components
2. Apheresis - Single Donor Platelet & Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
3. Column Agglutination Technique (Gel System)
4. TTI lab – ELISA
5. Sterile Connecting Device
6. Leucocyte Reduced blood products
7. Computerised barcode enabled blood bank database management software
8. Therapeutic plasmapheresis
9. Voluntary Blood donation camps
10. Irregular antibody screening & Identification.
11. Donor calling facilities by sending system generated SMS.
12. Antenatal Rh clinic [near future]
13. Day care centre for thalassemia patients[near future]
14. Mobile blood donor van

• Blood bank has valid license upto December 2021. (No.G710)
• IHBT department is having NABH accredited Blood Bank (since 28th December 2010, 2nd government hospital based blood bank all over India) with above mentioned facilities. Recent accreditation extended upto April 23, 2020.
• Department blood bank is collecting >90 % blood units from voluntary blood donors.
• Department blood bank is preparing > 85 % blood components of total blood collection.
• Round the clock Platelet aphaeresis service for needy patients & blood bank has done >300 platelet apheresis (SDP) procedures till date.
• As per NACO, NBTC, GSACS,GSCBT and government Gujarat policies, blood bank provides free blood and blood products to patients of thalessemia,coagulation disorders and other diseases as per directive.
• Hemovigilance program started April 2014.
• The department regularly participate in IQC & EQAS (BEQAS-Jaipur; Red cross Mumbai & CMC vellore) to minimize Blood Transfusion Reactions in hospital, Donor adverse reactions in voluntary blood donation camps & in house facility.
• Donor feedback forms filling & maintaining Turn around time for blood bank procedures by employing Standard operative procedures.

Quality Indicators

1. MD (IHBT)
2. Diploma in blood bank technology (in near future)DBBT for technicians.

Theory papers: Each paper of 100 Marks (Under VNSGU)

• Paper I Basic applied aspects related to Transfusion Medicine
• Paper II Immunohaematology, immunogenetics, and applied serology
• Paper III Blood donor organization, Technology of components, clinical hemotherapy.
• Paper IV Recent advances & technology

Practical examination (600 marks)

Laboratory and clinical skills: Minimum of 6 exercises (stations) covering all aspects of Transfusion Medicine. Some examples are as under.

• Blood donor / apheresis donor selection
• Component processing
• Immunohematology,
• Antenatal serology
• Transfusion reaction management
• Quality control of reagents, equipment, components
• Coagulation testing,
• Basic hematology tests,
• Transfusion transmitted infection screening
• Stem cell transplantation

Previous years university theory papers

• 2016
• 2017

Teaching schedule of post graduate student

Post graduate lecture topics

1. Drug & Cosmatic Act
2. Guidelines to set up new blood bank & Model Blood Bank
3. Research Methodology
4. ABO blood group system
5. Rh blood group system
6. Basics of Immunohematology & Blood transfusion
7. Coombs test
8. Compatibility Testing
9. Donor Blood Collection 1
10. Donor Blood Collection 2
11. Blood Product QC
12. Reagent QC
13. QC of ELISA
14. Urine Examination
15. Accreditation of the Bloodbank
16. MSBOS
17. Clinical Transfusion Practice
18. RCA OF failed test results
19. Point of care testing in transfusion medicine
20. Peripheral Smear Examination
21. Hemolytic Anemia
22. Hemoglobinopathies
23. IDA
24. Megaloblastic Anemia
25. Coagulation Disorders
26. Malaria
27. Automation in hematology
28. FDA inspection crieteria
29. Equipment QC
30. Quality Manual and document control - NABH
31. Donor notification of abnormal finding
32. Recipient & donor hemovigilance
33. TQM, EQAS, GMP - applications in transfusion medicine
34. TRIM
35. DLI

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