In partnership with Linda Barnes at Bloodworks NW, who is involved in implementation science, Dr. Meghan Delaney, chief of pathology and laboratory medicine, created and ran a three-day symposium in Kampala, Uganda on transfusion, focusing on issues pertinent to the local population. “We had all these providers, from surgeons to pediatricians to obstetricians,” recalls Dr. Delaney, “it was great.” Recently, she finished a project in Mbarara, Uganda in which she and her team helped the local hospital identify and utilize local blood donors to establish a more advanced blood cross matching test. “We proved that if you help them learn how to do the blood banking on their own, step by step, it is sustainable and can lead to improved outcomes,” she says. Dr. Delaney has continued this work in Uganda and had branched out to several other African countries as well.
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