Each year on June 14th, World Blood Donor Day is celebrated around the world to raise awareness about safe blood donations and to reward all who willingly donate blood to save the lives of others.
It was first celebrated on the birthday anniversary of Karl Landsteiner — a scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the ABO blood group system — on June 14, 1868.
The requirement for safe blood is all-inclusive. Safe blood is basic both for medicines and earnest intercessions. It can help patients experiencing hazardous conditions live more and with a higher caliber of life and supports complex clinical and surgeries.
Blood is likewise imperative for treating the injured during crises of assorted types (cataclysmic events, mishaps, outfitted clashes, and so on.) and has a fundamental, life-sparing job in maternal and neonatal consideration.
In any case, access to safe blood is as yet a benefit of the couple. Generally, low-and center salary nations battle to make safe blood accessible on the grounds that gifts are low and gear to test blood is scant.
All-inclusive, 42% of blood is gathered in high-salary nations, which are home to just 16% of the total populace.
Benefits of donating blood:
1. Development of new red blood cells.
2. It helps in controlling weight.
3. For each pint donating blood can burn about 650 calories, which is like 450 ml of blood.
4. Keeps cancer away.
Safe blood saves lives
This year, World Blood Donor Day will by and by be commended far and wide on June 14. The occasion serves to thank deliberate, unpaid blood benefactors for their life-sparing endowment of blood and furthermore to bring issues to light of the requirement for standard blood gifts to guarantee that all people and networks approach reasonable and ideal supplies of protected and quality-guaranteed blood and blood items, as a necessary piece of widespread wellbeing inclusion and a key segment of compelling wellbeing frameworks.
Criteria to donate blood
- The Minimum hemoglobin needs to be 11 g/dl
- Minimum weight needed 110 lbs
- Age should be between 18 years to 65 years
- One should drink plenty of fluids before donating blood
- Their temperature should be normal, i.e., the person should not have any fever
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