Chandigarh (Balwinder Singh): Haryana has secured the top rank across the country in voluntary blood donation for the third consecutive year, driven by robust civic participation, comprehensive digital integration, and expanding healthcare infrastructure. The Government of India will confer the national honour on the state during the National Voluntary Blood Donation Day event on October 1, 2026, at Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi. Announcing the achievement in Chandigarh, Dr. Sumita Mishra, Additional Chief Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department, stated that verified data on the national e-RaktKosh portal placed Haryana first among all states in blood units collected per million population, following previous top honours in 2024 and 2025.
During the 2025–26 period, Haryana collected 5.89 lakh units of blood across 8,189 organized donation camps. The state achieved complete district-level coverage after licensing a blood centre at Charkhi Dadri Civil Hospital, ensuring all 22 districts operate at least one licensed government facility. The wider blood transfusion network expanded from 146 to 163 centres, encompassing 34 public and 129 private facilities, with 150 centres equipped for blood component separation. Focused administrative engagement propelled the voluntary donation rate from 79 percent to 92 percent by August 2026, closing in on the 95 percent national benchmark.
Digital integration has played a major role in modernizing transfusion management across the state. Within two months of its launch, 89 blood centres adopted the new ABHA-linked donor registration system on the e-RaktKosh portal, while 134 facilities now maintain real-time updates for stock tracking and public transparency. Clinical safety indicators also showed marked improvement, with the state successfully tracking 96.17 percent of high-risk reactive donors and maintaining an overall wastage discard rate of 2.69 percent, well below the national maximum threshold of four percent.
The state continues to provide essential transfusion services at no charge to patients admitted to government hospitals, alongside complimentary single donor platelets for eligible low-income and dengue patients. Comprehensive lifetime support is also extended to 1,443 registered thalassemia patients and 1,018 hemophilia patients across district civil hospitals, who receive free iron chelation therapy and anti-hemophilia factors. Notable community mobilization milestones included a single-day collection of 10,183 units during a statewide drive on May 5, 2025, and youth-led drives under Operation Sindoor that introduced the state’s first disaster management protocol for blood banks. To further heighten screening accuracy, authorities have sanctioned an advanced ID-NAT testing facility at PGIMS Rohtak, advancing Haryana’s transition toward state-of-the-art transfusion safety.
