The health care organisation must be able to carry out or have carried out twenty-four hours a day, within a timeframe compatible with safety requirements and the patient’s condition:
– haematology, biochemistry and bacteriology tests ;
– histocompatibility tests, including HLA typing;
– CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging;
– virology, parasitology and mycology examinations;
– anatomopathology examinations
– immunology examinations;
– radiotherapy treatments;
– drug blood tests.
The health care organisation must have, possibly by agreement with another organisation, an operating theatre where bone marrow grafts can be harvested under general anaesthetic and a unit for harvesting haematopoietic stem cells by cytapheresis.
The health facility must have labile blood products available 24 hours a day, every day of the year. These products are delivered within timescales compatible with life-threatening emergencies.