NBTS To Partner NAN On Regular Blood Donation Sensitisation

The Coordinator, National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS), Dr Omo Izedonmwen, is seeking for partnership with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to sensitise Nigerians about the importance of regular voluntary blood donation to save people in need.
He made the request when he visited Malam Ibrahim Mammaga, the acting Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the agency in Abuja.
He appealed to the management of the agency to partner with NBTS to sensitise Nigerians to see the need for them to donate blood regularly.
He said “my prayer is for you to join hands with us to re-orientate Nigerians into regular blood donation and to see how we can have a partnership such that we can create a fixed donation side in your premises for those who want to donate at a certain time.
“ We can decide that every three months, we bring our campaigns here.
“Your staff can come down, donate one unit of blood out of the seven litres that the body has, if qualified, one can donate regularly; men can donate every three months, women every four months.
“Whether you donate or not, your red blood cells will die after 120 days.”
He, therefore, stressed the need for people to donate blood “so that the body will stimulate the bone marrow to start producing, so, it is actually good for the body.”
Izedonmwen said the sensitisation became important to be able to provide blood in large quantity for people in need, especially during emergencies.
He said it took the NBTS 100 units of blood to save the lives of some of the people attacked during the Boko Haram bomb blast at the UN Hosue in Abuja.