Regional
This Regional section features news from three regions: Western Pacific, Europe and Eastern Mediterranean. The articles were invited by the Regional Directors: Christian Erikstrup (Europe), Maha Badawi (Eastern Mediterranean), and Nelson Hirokazu Tsuno (Western Pacific).
Rare Donor program: Kuwait Central Blood Bank
Reem Ali Al Radwan, Marwa Hamed Aly Ibrahim AlSayed and Hanan AlAwadhi
The Arab Authority for Blood Transfusion Services
Aysha Al Malki
Novel tool in immunohematology - Raman spectroscopy used for blood grouping and other molecular phenotyping enabling personalized transfusion medicine
Morten Hanefeld Dziegiel, Anders Kristensen and Emil Alstrup Jensen
Enhancing Blood Transfusion Services on the Remote Islands of Japan
Kazuhiro Nagai
The 72nd Annual Congress of the Japan Society of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy (JSTMCT)
Asashi Tanaka
Establishment of a Stem Cell Donor Registry in Sri Lanka
P.R.L.Morawakage
The First National Patient Blood Management Consensus Statement Launching in Malaysia
Nor Hafizah Ahmad
The Evolution of Malaysia National Blood Centre's Platelet Immunology Laboratory
Nor Hafizah Ahmad, Noor Sheereen Adzaludin and Nurul Munira Yahya
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