Chief Executive Officer of the National Blood Service, Dr Shirley Owusu Ofori, says her outfit is highly regulated and debunked perceptions that unscrupulous people could acquire blood from it for ritual purposes.
She said the Service had firm systems in place to track every unit of blood given, hence no room was given for any unit of blood to be compromised.
Dr Ofori, who said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, explained that every blood from a donor was given an identity to determine whether it was usable or not in a transparent process.
Her response followed speculations that blood donated voluntarily were being sold to people for spiritual purposes including, money rituals.
The misconception has kept many away from donating blood needed to boost stocks for hospitals across the country to enhance life-saving.
She explained that the Service would never partner with any entity to engage in such a secretive activity as they were bound by law in all its activities.
