What does the term Service Charge means in Blood banks?
Ans. No charges for blood as such, can be levied by any blood bank. However the blood that is collected from a donor at no costs, requires to be processed to make it free of infection, to ensure that it has certain minimum quality standards. It also needs to be stored and tested with recipients blood before transfusion. Besides all these, establishment costs for the blood bank like infrastructure maintenance, salaries etc. add to the overall costs of providing a safe unit of blood to the patient. Blood banks attempt to recover these costs as service charge from the consumer.
