Kerala - Kozhikode   

For safe blood transfusion

The world community celebrates World Blood Donors’ Day on June 14 to remember the life-saving service by the thousands of people who voluntarily donate blood. The celebrations are organised to create public awareness of voluntary blood donation and to encourage more people to become regular donors. The day also serves to seek renewed commitment from health professionals and policy makers to work towards making safe blood transfusion available to those who require it. The message communicated is that voluntary blood donors are the foundation of blood safety in any health care system as they are associated with significantly lower levels of infection which can be transmitted through transfusion.

The theme of this year’s World Blood Donors’ Day is ‘Safe blood for safe motherhood.’ The theme has been chosen by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to highlight the role of safe blood transfusion in maternal and peri-natal care. Post-partum haemorrhage is one of the biggest direct causes of maternal death in India. This is totally preventable if health facilities in the peripheral areas are equipped with safe blood storage and transfusion facilities to provide emergency obstetric care The WHO says that world-wide, more than 5,00,000 maternal deaths take place each year, 99 per cent of them in the developing countries.

C. MAYA

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Where spirituality meets aesthetics
Palmking butterfly sighted
Campus notes
For safe blood transfusion
Demand to arrest chikungunya
Observation camp to be held on June 18
Indian cancels flights
Selection of volunteers
All eyes on STF
Devaswom expresses regret

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu