Blood Donors Profile at the Blood Transfusion Regional Center Tulear, Madagascar

Introduction: One way to find solution to blood donation insufficiency to establish the profile of donors. No study has been performed on blood donors at the regional blood center of Tulear. Our aim is to determine their profile and their exclusion patterns to develop an action plan. Materials and Methods: The new regional blood center is working since five years. We analyzed all record of blood donors in the center between February and August 2015. The data was processed on EPI data 7. Results: The male gender accounted for 83.7% of donors against 16.4% for female with an average age of 31 years. Family or replacement donors were 96.4%. We excluded 21.5% of them during our study, because of low hemoglobin levels, health problems found during the donation, sexual risk behaviors, taking medications within 72 hours of donation, sexually transmitted diseases especially syphilis and non-compliance with the time interval between two blood donations respectively 11.5%, 6.5%, 1.6%, 0.8%, 0.5%, 0.3%. Conclusion: Donors were essentially donor replacements. They have been excluded because of their low hemoglobins levels.