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Table 4 Responses by health workers on their attitudes and practices to transfusion-transmitted malaria

From: Transfusion-transmitted malaria: donor prevalence of parasitaemia and a survey of healthcare workers knowledge and practices in a district hospital in Ghana

Question

Number of respondents

Answer

Number (%)

Are you directly involved in blood transfusion in your hospital?

100

Yes

50 (50.0)

No

50 (50.0)

What do you do in relation to transfusion?

100

Prescribe blood

4 (4.0)

Administer transfusion

41 (41.0)

Monitor transfusion

30 (30.0)

Screen blood

8 (8.0)

Recruiting blood donors

3 (3.0)

No response

14 (14.0)

Does your blood bank screen donor blood for malaria parasites?

100

Yes

44 (44.0)

No

21 (21.0)

Not sure

35 (35.0)

Will you transfuse malaria positive blood in case of an emergency?

55

Yes

30 (54.5)

No

21 (38.2)

Not sure

4 (7.3)

Will you transfuse syphilis positive blood in case of an emergency?

55

Yes

4 (7.3)

No

51 (92.7)

Will you transfuse hepatitis B positive blood in case of an emergency?

55

Yes

0 (0)

No

55 (100.0)

Giving routine anti-malarials

55

Yes, I will give everyone

16 (29.1)

Yes, I will give only children

2 (3.6)

No, I won’t give anyone

37 (67.3)