DIBRUGARH, Feb 11: Assam Medical College and Hospital has commissioned a Blood Irradiator machine for the first time in the Northeast region. The blood irradiator, indigenously developed by the Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology unit of DAE, is received as grant-in-aid from the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India for blood transfusion for the needy patients. However, the process is associated with certain risk factors, developed during and in post-blood transfusion in patients, commonly known as Host versus graft diseases (T-GVHD) mostly afflicting patients with poor immunity complex. With a view to create awareness on irradiated blood and blood products, Assam Medical College will be conducting one-day seminar in the month of March 2009 on a date to be announced, M Rahman, Head of Radio Immuno Assay Centre (RIA Centre), Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh stated this.
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