Whole Blood Donors Deferral : Demographic trends; tertiary hospital experience

It is well known that quite a large number of apparently healthy donors are not able to donate blood successfully because of varied reasons such as high risk lifestyles and medical problem. Shortage of safe blood donors is frequent and it is important to understand the causes of deferral of potential donors, who reside mainly in urban areas, to improve recruitment campaigns aiming at the quality/availability of donors .