Hemepar

What Hemepar does

Hemepar (Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Paraná) is a public blood banking and hematology reference center operated by the State Health Secretariat of Paraná (SESA) in Brazil. The organization is designated as the sole coordinated blood service for the State of Paraná, operating a network of 23 units distributed across all regions of the state with its headquarters located at Rua Piquiri 170 – Rebouças in Curitiba. Hemepar is responsible for the full blood service value chain, including donor recruitment, blood collection, storage, processing, transfusion, and distribution of blood and hemoderivatives.

The organization serves public, private, and philanthropic hospitals across Paraná, distributing blood products through the state health network integrated with Brazil's national SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde) public health system. Core operational offerings include scheduled blood donation appointments (online for the Curitiba unit, walk-in at remaining units), a digital Blood Donation Certificate delivered to donors by email, second-sample collection scheduling, a scientific research program, and professional reference materials for healthcare workers linked to the Rede Hemepar network. All 23 units participate in the same coordinated service model under a documented Quality Policy framework.

Hemepar does not operate as a commercial enterprise. Services are provided free of charge at the point of service, funded entirely through state government public healthcare budgets, and voluntary blood donation is non-remunerated. There is no disclosed pricing model, no external funding rounds, no private investors, and no independent corporate ownership structure. The entity operates with 84 employees, has no subsidiaries, and functions as an integral component of the Paraná state government health apparatus.

Name

Hemepar

Legal name

Hemepar - Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Paraná

Website

https://hemepar.pr.gov.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Hemepar is Paraná state's sole public blood banking and hematology reference center, operating 23 units statewide under the State Health Secretariat. It collects, processes, and distributes blood and hemoderivatives free of charge to public, private, and philanthropic hospitals within Brazil's SUS system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Blood Banking Services

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991), Medical Laboratories (621511), Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories (6215)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAFAMAG

Transfusion Medicine & Immunohematology (Blood Bank)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Healthcare Providers & Systems/Clinical Laboratories

SECONDARYHLAFAMAC

Hematology & Coagulation Laboratories

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Healthcare Providers & Systems/Clinical Laboratories

SECONDARYHLACAMAE

Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine LIS

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/Laboratory Information Systems (LIS/LIMS) & Pathology Informatics

Keywords

• Blood banking services
• Public health services
• Hematology services
• Blood donation services
• Hemoderivatives distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Curitiba

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Hemepar is the public reference center for Hematology and Hemotherapy in the State of Paraná, Brazil, operating a centralized network of 23 units responsible for the collection, storage, processing, transfusion, and distribution of blood and hemoderivatives. It serves public, private, and philanthropic hospitals across all regions of the state as part of the SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde) public health system, and provides ancillary services such as donation scheduling, digital blood donation certificates, second-sample collection, and scientific research support.

Product overview

O Hemepar (Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Paraná) é uma unidade pública da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde do Paraná que opera como serviço centralizado de hemoterapia e hematologia. A organização oferece coleta, armazenamento, processamento, transfusão e distribuição de sangue e hemoderivados para hospitais públicos, privados e filantrópicos em todas as regiões do Estado, operando por meio de uma rede de 23 unidades. Os serviços incluem agendamento de doação de sangue (online para Curitiba, por ordem de chegada nas demais), emissão de certificado digital de doação, agendamento de segunda amostra, além de materiais científicos e pesquisa para profissionais de saúde. A organização segue uma Política da Qualidade documentada.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Blood Collection, Storage, Processing, and Distribution Service
• Blood Donation Scheduling Service
• Second Sample Blood Donation Scheduling Service
• Hemepar Network of 23 Units Service Network
• Scientific Research Program (Hemepar)

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT): UK-wide public blood and organ service operating collection, processing, and distribution at national scale. Useful benchmark for operating model and regulatory-mandated public blood banking, though functioning at much larger scale and serving an entire national health system rather than a single state.
• American Red Cross Biomedical Services: The largest single blood collection organization in the United States, supplying roughly 40% of the nation's blood and plasma needs. Comparable in mission (voluntary, non-remunerated donor model) and end-to-end blood banking operations, though operating nationally and at a vastly larger scale than Hemepar.

Direct peers

• Hemoba (Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia da Bahia): Bahia state blood center operating a network of units for blood collection, testing, processing, and distribution. Direct peer in the Brazilian state-level public blood bank model with comparable scope and regulatory standing.
• Hemope (Centro de Hematologia de Pernambuco): Pernambuco state hematology and hemotherapy center, a public reference institution providing blood banking services to hospitals across the state. Mirrors Hemepar's structure, mission, and state-mandated role within the SUS system.
• Fundação Pro-Sangue (Hemocentro de São Paulo): São Paulo state blood center and one of the largest public blood banks in Latin America. Comparable as a state-mandated public blood bank with end-to-end collection, testing, and distribution services integrated with the SUS public health system.
• Hemosc (Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia de Santa Catarina): Santa Catarina state blood center, a direct structural and functional peer to Hemepar in the neighboring state. Operates the same end-to-end public blood banking services within the Brazilian SUS network.
• Hemorio: Rio de Janeiro state blood center, also a public unit delivering blood collection, processing, and distribution services to public, private, and philanthropic hospitals. Operates under a similar governmental mandate and SUS-integration model as Hemepar.
• Fundação HEMOPA: Pará state blood center foundation operating public blood collection and distribution for the state. Operates under the same Brazilian state-public-health-system framework as Hemepar, providing end-to-end hemotherapy services.
• Fundação Hemominas: State blood center of Minas Gerais, operating under that state's Health Secretariat with a multi-unit network collecting, processing, and distributing blood and hemoderivatives. Closest functional analogue to Hemepar in scope, governance, and public-mandate model, differing primarily in geographic coverage.
• Hemoce (Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Ceará): Ceará state blood center providing voluntary donor collection, processing, and distribution of blood products across the state via a network of units. Direct functional peer to Hemepar in the same Brazilian state-level public blood bank category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hemepar

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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