Blood Donation Campaign What is blood donation?

A blood donation occurs when a healthy person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions or made into medications by a process called fractionation. Che Zhong Khor society organise a blood donation campaign to replace the shortage of blood in the hospital betong. It will start at 9am until 5pm on 14 octorber 2010. The venue is at Dewan Kalongnikan Betong. There are many benefits we can gain through blood donation. First of all, donated blood saves millions of lives each year. It is quite obvious that Prevention is better than cure. It is much more prudent to go to a blood bank than suffer from blood shortage. In other words, 45 minutes spent at licensed blood bank and short discomfort caused by insertion of a needle effects in such a quantity of blood that can decide about fate of people seriously injured in accidents. What is more, one cannot foresee whether an injured person will not be ones relative. In a word, donating blood hurts a little, while having someone you care about need blood and not get it because it is not there is very painful. Secondly, blood plays vital role in operations as well as in everyday treatment, which is intended for people suffering from leukaemia, various cancers or hereditary illnesses such as haemophilia. The fact that blood transfusion, which is necessary during chemotherapy, lengthens life of a child afflicted with leukaemia for one to few days shows that shortage of blood in banks may not only put ones health at risk but also may decide about ones death. In addition to this, it cannot be denied that without help of donors haemophiliacs would not enjoy relatively long and comfortable lives any longer. Thanks to medicines produced on the basis of plasma and platelets, blood components, haemophilia, sickle cell disease and aplastic anaemia are not deaths sentences any more. On the other hand, opponents claim that one can get HIV and chronic diseases, for example hepatitis C by blood donating. As far as developing and Third World countries are concerned this is partly true, because of low sanitary standards. In practice at licensed bank the needle and other clinic materials used to take blood are new, sterile and used only once, after that disposed. As a conclusion, donate blood not only improve your own health, as long as it also can help other people and save life. If you are the person which are 18 years

old and above, have a healthy body and does not intake any medicine in long time, please join this campaign. You will get more rewards if you help many people.