The Department of Transfusion Medicine, Govt. Medical College and Hospital has grown over the years from a small blood bank unit licensed in 1996 to a fully equipped modern blood component separation unit with facilities for plateletpheresis. Presently, the department is functioning from its new premises in D-Block since 2008. Besides providing round the clock services for blood and blood components to GMCH patients, the department also caters to the needs of patients admitted in private hospitals and nursing homes, civil hospitals, dispensaries of Chandigarh and the adjoining region. The department is also running the post graduate course in Transfusion Medicine since 2009.