An adequate supply can only be assured through regular donations by voluntary, unpaid
blood donors.
Three hundred ninety
blood donors were prospectively recruited in the study from October 10, 2015, up to November 10, 2015, and convenient sampling techniques were used to recruit
blood donors who were eligible to donation, consented, interviewed, and gave blood for serum screening of transfusion-transmissible infections.
Blood can only come from volunteer
blood donors, yet only 3 out of 100 people in the U.S.
The centre received around 65,000
blood donors from 150 nationalities through 734 blood donation campaigns in 2018.
A major event to honour
blood donors will be held at a later stage.
For his part, Mr Obusitswe Jaele a
blood donor since 1996 challenged those eligible to donate blood without fear.
World
Blood Donor Day will be celebrated around the world on 14 June.
Prevalence of Transfusion Transmitted Infection in Replacement and Voluntary
Blood Donor. RADS Journal of Biological Research and Applied Sciences, 2013; 4 (2): 56-63.
Taiwan is the world's best
blood donor according to the World Health Organization.
This is why every potential
blood donor at TMC must undergo a risk assessment tool that asks a set of questions he must answer honestly.
That famous line, from Tony Hancock's most famous sketch, The
Blood Donor, proved an inspiration for pensioner Chrissie Ringrose.
| Super
blood donor Chrissie Ringrose and (inset) Tony Hancock's famous
Blood Donor episode