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The Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine (HZTM) in Zagreb is Croatia’s national blood bank and the largest in the country. The institute handles approximately 100,000 donations per year and processes around 400 donations daily. Its activities include collecting, producing, storing, and distributing blood and several blood components, with testing of donations and organ donors. The institute covers roughly half of Croatia’s needs, with about 40% of processed plasma used clinically a