Why You Should Donate Blood

2230.Latterly I, for the first time in my life, donated blood.As someone who is always critically short of funds but wanting to do at least something good and altrustic, I try to find ways I can give of myself. When you donate blood, this is literally what you're doing. And you hear a great deal about how giving blood helps, but I found some nifty figures that tell you exactly how your blood donation might help:One blood donation can help save...  

On October 1st 2009, National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, Indian Red Cross Society - IRCS not only cheered the young donors to come forward and donate blood but also celebrated the elevation of its blood bank at NHQ as a model blood bank by NACO. This is the only blood bank outside the government fold to get into this privileged group. While in India just about 50% of the blood the country needs every year is met through voluntary donation...  

51-year-old Charles Bianco of Kalkara this morning donated blood for the 100th time, keeping up a practice he started in November 1976. He was welcomed at the Blood Donations Unit by Tony Micallef, the staff nurse in charge of donor recruitment,...  

Maersk Oil Qatar has organised a blood donation campaign among its employees in co-operation with the Hamad Medical Corporation. Employees donated blood in an HMC mobile blood unit stationed at the company’s headquarters in Al Jazi tower, West Bay ...  

I'd like to use this post to give a virtual high-five and my public support to Kyle Freeman, who's making a Charter challenge on the Canadian blood donation laws.Edit to add, because reading is fundamental: I'd like to make clear, I'm not calling for a boycott. I'm calling for public pressure to be put on the agency to change their rules to something more effective, and I'm personally choosing not to donate. I'm not even encouraging you not...  

This fall a new law went into effect allowing 16-year-olds to donate blood with parental consent. That opens up a whole new category of donors for this year's Drive for Life blood drive at Invesco Field.  

State Senator Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, will donate blood today, Sept. 21, at Fairway Christian Reformed Church in Jenison to promote his bill that would lower the minimum age limit.  

The American Red Cross has scheduled dates and sites where blood can be donated during the next few days: