20/11/2017
A Few Stats on Voluntary Blood Donation!!
The world over 88 million units of blood from all sources are collected annually. The quantity is sufficient to fill 32 modern Olympic Swimming Pools but not enough for the 6,910 million world population which requires 150 million units annually. Everything is increasing and the need for safe blood is also increasing. 57 of the 193 WHO member states are able to meet their annual requirement of blood from voluntary blood donors' source including Zimbabwe.
Some countries having high levels of voluntary blood donors per 1,000 population figures are Switzerland -113/1,000, Japan -70/1,000 while for India it is 4/1,000. It is generally recommended that the equivalent of 1-3% of a country's population should donate blood to meet a country's blood needs.
Against an annual requirement of 8 million units of blood, India is able to collect only 5.6 million units of which 3 million units (56%) are from voluntary blood donors while the remaining 2.6 million units (44%) from family/replacement donors. Manipur is still lagging behind in regard to Voluntary Blood Donation.
Probably we still lack well trained good motivators. Unawareness/ignorance of the general public about voluntary blood donation and to some extent their fear and misconceptions regarding blood donation are other contributory factors. Again the Blood Transfusion Services in the State are mainly hospital based and are at different levels of management system.
In spite of the rapid and remarkable advancements in medical science today, NO FACTORY CAN MANUFACTURE BLOOD. It is only in human beings that human blood is made and circulated. Hence, DONATION - RATHER VOLUNTARY DONATION IS THE ONLY WAY OF ACCUMULATING BLOOD at safe storage to meet emergency requirements for SAVING LIVES.
So, We Invite You FRIENDS to join our Hands and save lives of thousands and millions of people out there who are in need of you for SURVIVAL!!!