NRNA Mobile Blood Bus
One Province, One Mobile Blood Bus Project
“NRNA’s Quality Project for Nepal”
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- Introduction
“One Province, One Mobile Blood Bus Project” is a quality enhancement Project of NRNA for Blood Banks of all seven provinces. Each Province has a medical hub, which is facing a lot of challenges for providing quality blood service time again. The harsh climatic condition of each place adds challenges in blood collection during summer, winter and rainy seasons. This project will eliminate climatic barrier for blood donation as it will have Air Condition and closed space. The project’s cost is estimated about NRs. Seventy Lakhs for each Mobile Blood Bus. It is one of the flagship project led by NRNA’s President Rabina Thapa and IES 2021-23. This initiation is being supported by the Nepalese diaspora all over the world. Blood Banks have prepared the operational plan to operate these Mobile Blood Banks in each province. This project is being conducted jointly by Non-Resident Nepali Association and Blood Banks of Nepal. Institutional collaboration for the good cause like such can give some solutions for effective, efficient and safer blood management of Nepal.
- Objectives :
- To help in Blood collection and supply in Blood Transfusion Service Center
- To assure the quality and safety of patients
- To increase the number of Blood Donors
- To promote use of technology in Blood Transfusion System in Nepal
- To provide the blood to emergency cases from the collection site
| 3. Committee Members | ||||
| S.N. | Name | Role | Designation | Country |
| 1 | Rabina Thapa | Head | President, NRNA | America |
| 2 | Vinay Adhikari | Co-Chair | Deputy General Sec-retary | UK |
| 3 | Pramod Situala | Co-Chair | Secretary, NRNA | USA |
| 4 | Lok Prasad Dahal | Member | Treasurer | Belgium |
| 5 | Fanindra Panta | Member | Treasurer | Netherlands |
| 6 | Suneel Sah | Coordina-tor for Madhesh Province Mobile Blood Bus | Treasurer | USA |
| 7 | Dr. Roshan Lal Shrestha | Member | Chair, NRNA BTS | USA |
| 8 | Yamuna Bhattarai | Member | Joint-Treasurer | USA |
| 9 | Tanka Gaire | Member | Joint- Treasurer | USA |
| 10 | Shiva Paudel | Member | President, NRNA NCC Japan | Japan |
| 11 | Dipak Gautam | Coordina-tor for Province 1 Mobile Blood Bus | President, NRNA NCC Canada | Canada |
| 12 | Dilip Kumar Pokhrel | Member | Australia | |
| 13 | Niraj Panta | Member | USA | |
| 14 | Amit Kattel | Member | USA | |
| 15 | Renu Subedi | Member | USA | |
| 16 | Laxmi Giri | Member | NCC President, Ba-harain | Baharain |
| 17 | Romiyan Limbu | Member | UK | |
| 18 | Bishnu Baniya | Member | Japan | |
| 19 | Mohamad Muktada Musalman | Coordina-tor for Lumbini Province Mobile Blood Bus | NCC President, Qatar | Qatar |
| 20 | Kunal Mishra | Project Coordina-tor | Officer, NRNA | Nepal |
| Advisors | ||||
| S.N. | Name | Role | Designation | Country |
| 1 | Dr. Manita Rajkar-nikar | Advisor | Past Director, CBTS, NRCS | Nepal |
| 2 | Dr. Hem Raj Sharma | Advisor | Vice President, NRNA | UK |
| 3 | Gouri Raj Joshi | Advisor | General Secretary, NRNA | USA |
| 4. Plan of Action for three Blood Buses: Province 1, Madhesh Province and Lumbini Province | ||||
| Action | Focal Person | Timelines | ||
| Fund Raising for Province 1 | Deepak Gautam | |||
| Fund Raising Madhesh Province | Suneel Shah | 2 Months (Max) | ||
| Fund Raising for Lumbini Province | Mohammad Muktada Musalman | 2 Months (Max) | ||
| Order for 3 Buses | Rabina Thapa, NRNA Secretariat (Rabi Kiran Adhikari and Kunal Mishra) | 1 Week | ||
| Delivery of Buses | Contractor | 5 Months (Max) | ||
| Handover of Bus | Rabina Thapa & Team | 6 Months (Max) | ||
| Monitoring and Evaluation | NRNA BTS | 6 Months (Max) | ||
| Report Writing | NRNA BTS | 6 Months (Max) | ||
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