Abstract

To determine the ABO and Rh phenotype blood group distribution among blood donors in Government Medical College, Rajouri, J&K India. Material and Methods: A total of one thousand people were evaluated and found to be physically and mentally capable of giving blood. Everyone in this group is older than 18 years old. All of the blood was collected either from willing donors at donation camps or from replacement donors in the hospital blood bank. None of the blood was taken from animals. Venepuncture was used as the technique for collecting the blood samples, which were then placed in a vacutainer that contained ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid. The antigen-antibody agglutination test served as the only basis for these examinations. The anti-globulin approach was used to verify blood groups that were Rh-negative, and after that, any weak D groups that remained were believed to be Rh positive. Results: According to the data shown in Tables 1 and 2, out of a total of one thousand blood donors, the vast majority were men (910, or 91%), while just 90 of the donors were females (9%). There were a maximum of sixty percent of blood donors who were discovered to be under the age of thirty-five, and forty percent of blood donors were found to be above the age of thirty-five. Blood type B was shown to have the highest prevalence (32%), followed by blood group A (30%), blood group O (26%), and blood group AB (12%), in that order; hence, B is more common than A, O, and AB. It was discovered that the positive Rhesus factor was present in 94% of cases, whereas the negative Rhesus factor was only identified in 6% of cases. The distribution of blood donors according to their rhesus phenotype.

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