The province of Sindh, the second most populous province in Pakistan, comprises of a 60 million population with 24 administrative districts. The budget of SBTP Phase I for Sindh was PKR 251.97 million, through which four RBCs were constructed and equipped. One each in Karachi, Jamshoro, Sukkur and Nawabshah, to supply blood products to the linked 24 existing Hospital Blood Banks which have been upgraded and renovated for this new role. The Sindh health department decided to hand them over to the private sector.

The Regional Blood Centre, Shaheed Benazirabad was inaugurated on October 18, 2019, by the Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho along with German Consul General in Karachi Eugen Wollfarth, Christian Kraemer, Regional Director KfW, Frankfurt, and Wolfgang Moellers, director KFW Pakistan. It has been outsourced to Fatimid Foundation under public-private partnership to promote quality transfusion services for the people of Nawabshah and adjoining areas; Sanghar, Shahdadpur, Umerkot, Nausheroferoze, Dadu & Moro. The RBC has been developed by the German government grant through KFW-German Development Bank to the “Safe Blood Transfusion Project”.

The RBC Nawabshah is equipped with modern, sophisticated medical equipment and well trained  staff to ensure the safe transfusion of blood as per the international standards. RBC has a capacity of collecting 20,000 blood donations per year, serves as blood  distribution centre ensuring quality in transfusion medicine to regulate all activities of safe blood transfusion which include mobilization and retention of voluntary blood donors, screening, testing, component preparation and storage of the prepared components. The collected blood will be screened for Hepatitis B, C, HIV, on FD approved analyzer. Moreover, blood will also be screened for syphilis and malaria from every unit of blood collected at least three blood components are produced to save three different lives.