[Further development of the transfusion service in Czechoslovakia]

The blood transfusion service in the CSSR must react in its future activities not only to recent advances in the discipline but also to the present adverse position as regards the spread of AIDS and other virus diseases. Therefore the further development in the CSSR is focused above all on the prevention of transmission of virus infections, incl. organized development of autologous transfusions. To this end the training of new specialists in the discipline must be focused, i. e. on training of clinical transfusiologists. As the basis the concept is used that haematology and blood transfusion in Czechoslovakia is a specialization of internal medicine or paediatrics. In the development of laboratory diagnosis attention is focused on the use of micromethods with the possibility of automation of examinations as well as economy of diagnostic procedures and staff.