TO FIND BLOOD DONOR DETAILS (Android App) - Where strangers become friends
B - Beautiful
L - Life
O - Only
O - On
D - Donating
Facts about blood needs
- Every year our nation requires about 5 Crore units of blood, out of which only a meager 80 Lakh units of blood are available.
- The gift of blood is the gift of life. There is no substitute for human blood.
- Every two seconds someone needs blood.
- More than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day.
- A total of 30 million blood components are transfused each year.
- The average red blood cell transfusion is approximately 3 pints.
- The blood type most often requested by hospitals is Type O.
- Sickle cell patients can require frequent blood transfusions throughout their lives.
- More than 1 million new people are diagnosed with cancer each year. Many of them will need blood, sometimes daily, during their chemotherapy treatment.
- A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 units of blood.
Let others benefit from your good health. Do donate blood if ...
- you are between age group of 18-60 years.
- your weight is 45 kgs or more.
- your haemoglobin is 12.5 gm% minimum.
- your last blood donation was 3 months earlier.
- you are healthy and have not suffered from malaria, typhoid or other transmissible disease in the recent past.
There are many, many people who meet these parameters of health and fitness!
Do abide by our rules - be truthful about your health status!
We ensure the health of blood, before we take it, as well as after it is collected. Firstly, the donor is expected to be honest about his or her health history and current condition. Secondly, collected blood is tested for venereal diseases, hepatitis B & C and AIDS.
You have to be healthy to give 'safe blood'.
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