The blood donation campaign today is held successfully. This is the third time that our church organized such a campaign.
The first two were held on 15 September, 2007 and 13 September, 2008. I blogged about them in the following blog entries:Day +802 : The blood donation
Day +439 : A first ever blood donation campaign of the church
More than 50 people came to donate blood, of which 46 of them managed to donate their blood successfully. Our church members constituted about 60% of this group of people.
We advertised the campaign through a few local Chinese newspapers. Unfortunately, one of them put a wrong date of the blood donation campaign; else the turnout will be better.
Our next blood donation campaign will be three months later, that is on 5 September, 2009. This is during the fasting month of Muslim - a time when the blood bank is always short of blood as our Muslim friends won't be able to donate blood due to fasting.
For those who donates blood at least twice in UH in a year, the hospital will be given free Hepatitis B vaccination. Therefore, if you donated blood today, your can register for free Hepatitis B vaccination during the next blood donation :-)
The conditions to be eligible for blood donation (Click to have larger view)
Checking the blood type
Examination before the blood donation
My wife, Angela
My nephews - Soon Hui and Chih Yung
Kuok Chai
Fellowship after blood donation - free Milo and cake
Blood from each donor - for screening purposes. The donors will be informed if their blood is having problem.
Blood is probably packed and stored before transporting to the blood blank
See you next post :-)
Checking the blood type
Examination before the blood donation
My wife, Angela
My nephews - Soon Hui and Chih Yung
Kuok Chai
Fellowship after blood donation - free Milo and cake
Blood from each donor - for screening purposes. The donors will be informed if their blood is having problem.
Blood is probably packed and stored before transporting to the blood blank
See you next post :-)
2 comments:
am curious abt the poster on the eligibility to donate blood. any idea why homosexual is described as men having sex with other men? are they discriminating against lesbian homosexuals? am wondering what's the reason behind this...as well as staying in UK and/or europe btwn 1980 to 1996
I don't know why only gays are included. Most probably their sexual acts bring higher risk of disease. On the second question, it is because people living in UK and/or Europe at that period were exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease(vCJD) which might be transmitted through blood transfusion. Further information available at http://www.giveblood.ie/Become_a_Donor/Keeping_Blood_Safe/vCJD_FAQs/
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