Table 3.

Quality System Status and Training Indicators in the 4 Blood Banks, Sana’a Capital, Yemen, 2016.

Indictors	Public blood banks			Private blood bank
	National Blood Transfusion and Research Center	National Center of Public Health Laboratories	Kuwait University Blood Bank	University of Sciences and Technology Blood Bank
Documentation of the organizational structure	YES	YES	NO	YES
Management is technically separated	YES	YES	NO	NO
Received training on biosafety	YES	YES	NO	YES
Received training on SOP	YES	YES	NO	NO
Quality assurance system	NO	NO	NO	NO
Staff are wearing coats and gloves	YES	YES	YES	YES
Have SOPs for waste management and disposal	NO	YES	NO	NO
Management system for biohazards waste and infectious blood	Incineration	Not known	General waste	Incineration

Note. SOP = standard operating procedures.