Blood products is an essential element of health system, and a blood service provides the patient with adequate access to safe blood. Having sufficient and safe blood supplies requires a nationally coordinated blood transfusion service based on voluntary blood donations. In 2005, World Health Assembly designated a special day in order to urge people to give blood freely, inform global need for safe and quality-assured blood and thank blood donors.
World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) severs to raise awareness of the need for safe blood as well as blood products and acknowledge unpaid blood donors for being life-savers.
WBDD 2020 theme is “Safe Blood Saves Life” with slogan “Give blood and make the World a healthier place”. This idea focuses on individuals as blood donors to improve the health of our fellow men. Blood donations are needed for all around the world as Blood has a life-saving role in supporting complex medical and surgical procedures such as planned treatment, urgent intervention, treated wounded, maternal and perinatal care. Individuals and communities should have access to safe and quality-assured blood and blood products in normal as well as emergency situations. Through the WBDD day, the public is called on to donate blood on a regular base.
Now it’s time to go out, give blood and share life.
Blood donors must meet following conditions:
- The age is between 18- 65 years.
- Weight should be more than 45 Kgs.
- A blood donor should be in good health; If a person have a cold, sore throat or any other infection, he/she cannot donate.
- Blood cannot be donated during pregnancy and breastfeeding time.
- Individuals with high risk behaviors, positive test for HIV, injected drugs and traveling to mosquito-borne infection areas cannot give blood.
