Dubai Health Authority: It provides an adequate stock of all blood types
16% increase in the number of donors of “My Blood for My Country” within a week
Dr. Hussein Al-Samt: "The campaign continues to implement external campaigns, targeting governmental and private institutions."
The "My Blood for My Country" campaign recorded a 16% increase in the number of donors, and 15.4% in the number of blood units, within one week, and the Director of the Department of Laboratories and Genetics at the Dubai Health Authority, Dr. Commission.
Al-Samt explained to "Emirates Today" that according to the authority's statistics, the number of blood donors a week ago reached 6,379 donors, currently reaching 7,403 donors, while the number of blood drawn units was 5682 units, reaching 6558 units within a week, which is a boom and an increase. Exceptional since the beginning of the current cycle of the campaign.
He pointed out that the increasing demand by donors and government agencies helped to provide a stock of all groups, noting that the blood group (0+) is the most in demand among all groups, while the blood group (AB-), is the least in demand, stressing that the needs of patients All avaliable without any shortage.
He stated that the Dubai Blood Donation Center is the first center to be accredited by the World Blood Banks Association, to ensure the safety of donors and patients receiving blood.
Al-Samt stressed that the campaign continues to implement external campaigns targeting governmental and private institutions, in addition to distributing mobile donation buses in different regions, with the aim of collecting the largest possible number of blood units and providing an adequate stock of blood of all types.
He added that a single blood unit can save the lives of three people, whose health condition requires a blood transfusion, calling on community members, citizens and residents, to participate in the campaign, to provide the largest amount of blood, to save lives.
Al-Samt pointed out that the annual increase in the amount of blood collected by the center is due to the community's growing awareness of the importance of donating blood, in addition to the presence of mobile buses for donation, which saves those wishing the hardship of reaching the center.
The campaign is implemented in a strategic partnership and fruitful cooperation between Emirates Today, Al Ameen Service, and the Dubai Health Authority.
The campaign was launched in its first session in 2012, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council.
His Highness was the first to donate blood at the moment of the campaign’s launch, which contributed to its success and encouraged community members to participate in it, especially after His Highness emphasized the importance of the initiative, saying that “blood donation is the best gift that a citizen and resident can give, as an expression of love for the homeland, especially since there is Sick and wounded need every drop of blood.”
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