ECO-IEST President, Alternative Member to the IPBES Bureau

Human
Resources
President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation,
announced in 2005 the commencement of the project
"Life without Thalassemia" which meets all modern
requirements of a Thalassemia Center and formed
a company to attract people to donate blood for the
treatment of patients with thalassemia. Hajiyeva also
presented information on the social status of the distribution
of blood donors. Elsewhere at the event,
Mahtab Maghsudlu (MD- MPH) Associate Professor
of High Institute for Research and Education in
Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran made presentation
on Self-sufficiency in safe blood, based on Voluntary
Blood Donation. She defined the meaning of self-sufficiency
in safe blood and its respective products
based on voluntary non-remunerated, blood donation
as well as the driver products.
The trend of volunteer blood donation in Iran was
In his presentation, he elaborated the current
approach towards blood transfusion primarily based
on substitution and haemostatic therapeutic effects
of transfusion of cellular and protein components of
blood.
Application of IT in Blood Services
Jabrail Asadzade, Director of Health Information
Center, Azerbaijan, delivered a presentation on the
"Application of IT to blood services in Azerbaijan".
While providing a brief history on the application of
IT in blood services in Azerbaijan, he said that new
modern medical institutions are being constructed
and existing hospitals and polyclinics renovated to
improve the logistics of all medical services and
ensure that the young specialists acquire international
experience in their areas of expertise.
also discussed. Maghsudlu further informed the participants
that Iran achieved the goal of 100% voluntary
blood donation in 2007 adding that there is an
urgent need to establish strategies and mechanisms
for achieving self-sufficiency in safe blood
and blood-related products based on VNRBD.
"Ensuring the security of supply and demand are
important national goals, and countries may set different
timelines for the achievement of these objectives,
depending on their health system development", she
said.
Transfusion Medicine
Eldar Hadjiev, Senior Hematologist of the Ministry of
Health of Azerbaijan spoke on the "Principles of
Transfusion Tactics and Component Hemotherapy".
In addition, under the auspices of the Heydar Aliyev
Foundation and on the personal initiative of the First
Lady, Mehriban Aliyeva, modern medical centers are
being built throughout the country and major actions
against various diseases and especially children's diseases,
has been implemented.
"The construction of modern diagnostics centers in
the region is ongoing by the financial support of
SOCAR. The introduction of information technologies
into the public health sector will in turn result in the
greater distribution of blood bank personnel, a reduction
in the number of errors during various calculations
and saving the working time by automation of
drawing up registers and other documents. The integration
of the Azerbaijani blood service institutions
into the unified data network will enable data to be
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