Best practices adopted in Argentina to promote hemotherapy technicians as professionals in transfusion medicine

From the beginning of the use of blood for therapeutic purposes, technicians in Argentina played an important role. The scope of the hemotherapy technician's activities includes participation in all processes of transfusion medicine. Hemotherapy technicians' workplaces are hemotherapy services in all their complexity. Current training in Argentina considers the hemotherapy technician no longer as an assistant, but as a professional in the health area. The creation of the Bachelor's Degree in Hemotherapy and Immunohematology responds to the need to professionalize human resources in health, raising the academic level of previous technical training. For this reason, the great pending challenge is to assume leadership roles and responsibility for the improvement of the organization and the results of the work of others for the benefit of donors, blood recipient patients and the entire community.