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Blood Donation
Blood Donation
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‾ A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusion
and made into biopharmaceutical medication by a process called fractionation.
‾ Blood bank often participation in the collection process as well as the procedures that follow
it.
BLOOD DRIVE
⁻ An event where donor comes to donate allogeneic blood is sometimes called a blood drive
or a blood donation session.
⁻ These can occur at a blood bank, but they are often set up at a location in the community
such as a shopping center, workplace, school or house of worship.
TYPES OF BLOOD DONATION
I. ALLOGENEIC DONATION
It is donation when a doner gives blood for storage at a blood bank for transfusion to an unknown recipient.
When a person has blood stored that will be transfusion back to the donor at a later date, usually after
surgery called autologous donation.
BASIC REQUIREMENT TO DONATE BLOOD
Be at least 17 years od age upper age for male 55 yr and female 50 yr.
Skin : the vane puncture site should be free of lesion or scar of needle prick indicative of addiction to
narcotics or frequent blood donation.
DONATION FREQUENCY
Healthy adults 18 to 75 yr. who meet donation eligibility criteria can donate blood. The procedure is safe and
relatively painless.
During a regular donation, you will around 470 ml of whole blood. This is about 8% of the average adults
blood volume.
The body replace this volume within 24 and 48 hr. and replenishes red blood cells in 10 to 12 weeks.
PLANNING OF BLOOD DONATION
1. FIND A PLACE
The first step to planning a blood drive is to find a suitable location such as a public
square or a community center.
A few points to keep in mind a comfortable waiting area for donors, likely weather
condition on the day easy access to parking or public transport.
Get in touch to schedule your derive and find out specific information for your area.
3. RECRUIT VOLUNTEERS
you will need help on the day of the blood drive, so once you have got a date and place set its time to recruit some
volunteers,
To make things easier add a note in yore community newsletter and take advantages of relevant social media
channels.
Again email blasts and social media posts are a cheap, easy wey to get the word out about your blod donation
drive.
If you community has a local center you can go the old fashioned route and hang some flayers to cover your bases.