Patients Now Getting Quicker treatment as MTN Blood Plasma Extractor Quickens Component Extraction

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Patients in need of blood are receiving quicker treatment following MTN Uganda’s donation of an automated blood component extractor to Uganda Blood Transfusion services (UBTS) which mines components faster. Prior to the donation, UBTS used manual methods of blood component extraction which took about 30 minutes to extract samples from about 10 units compared to the one minute using the automa