Husaini Blood Bank
Husaini Blood Bank was established in the year 1979 by late Dr. Hasan Ali Vajid inside his clinic located in Soldier Bazaar, Karachi. The objective behind the establishment of the blood bank was to provide Safe Blood to the Patients’ Community at large without any discrimination of caste, creed, race, religion or color. At that time it was a normal practice to purchase blood from the commercial blood banks whose source of blood was drug edicts who would sell their blood for money. Since those blood sellers (I would not use the noble term blood donors for those edicts) were not only selling blood frequently, reducing the potency of blood, but also sharing infected syringes among themselves causing transmission of deadly viral diseases like Hepatitis “B” and “C” to the patients through their blood.

Husaini Thalassaemia Service
In the year 1983 late Dr. Hasan Ali Vajid died during the performance of Hajj and was buried their. After his death his son Dr. Muhammad Ali Vajid took over the charge as the medical director of the blood bank. In the year 1993 Dr. Muhammad Ali Vajid founded a new wing of the blood bank in the name of Husaini Haematology & Oncology Services to provide healthcare facilities to Thalassaemia Patients.

Husaini Institute of Haematology
Safe blood is not possible without professionally trained blood bank technicians. As the blood banking is a very specialized branch of medical science, there was a shortage of professionally trained blood bank personnel in the industry. To overcome this shortage, Dr. Muhammad Ali Vajid established an institute in the year 2000 in the name of Husaini Institute of Haematology. The institute offers one year Diploma course in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine. The institute is registered with Sindh Board of Technical Education.

Husaini Blood Bank was started on a very small scale but by the grace of almighty Allah and with the sincere, selfless and devoted leadership, this organization has grown into one of the largest blood transfusion service centers in South East Asia with annual turnover of more than 135,000 units of blood and its components and the graph has a rising trend every year. The blood bank has a facility to split one unit of whole blood into 6 different blood components. Besides, there are 10 computerized Apheresis machines used to extract any particular required component of blood from a healthy voluntary donor. This technology enables to extract certain components to a maximum limit of 15-20 units out of single donor without causing any injury to the donor. Otherwise it would require 15-20 blood donors. The blood bank has been maintaining the pride of being pioneer in adopting advanced blood bank techniques. At present other blood banks in the country are striving to achieve ELISA based blood screening system while Husaini has switched over from conventional ELISA to the most advanced Chemiluminescent technology for blood screening to go one step ahead and ensure safe blood for the patient community.

Husaini Thalassaemia Centre is a daycare centre of its own kind providing comprehensive medical care to 600 hundred registered and more than 100 unregistered Thalassaemia patients. The facility at Thalassaemia center includes medical consultation, lab investigations, medication, blood transfusion, ICU, surgical procedures, Dental procedures, food and field trips. All these services are absolutely FREE OF COST.

On the basis of diversified services in the field of haematology and oncology, the organization was given a broader based name i.e. Husaini Haematology & Oncology Trust under which there is a blood bank, a Thalassaemia centre and an institute of haematology. The organization is run by a trust having a board of trustees with one managing trustee. Under the managing trustee there is a team of dedicated, qualified and experienced professionals. The administration and finance personnel include MBA’s, CA and ACCA while the medical team comprising of haematologist, paediatrician, dental surgeon, clinicians, blood bank physicians, blood bank techonologists and technicians. Besides providing routine blood transfusion services, this team has been serving the nation in all sorts of emergencies and natural disasters like earth quack, bomb blasts and in epidemics like Dengue & Congo viral fever etc.

In short Husaini has crossed many milestones so far but the vision is so broad that it seems to be a long way to go yet. In the end I would pray to the almighty may the blessings of Allah remain with this organization for ever aameen!