NBSC Boss encourages blood donation ahead of World Blood Donor Day
Dr Omale Amedu, Acting Director-General, the National Blood Service Commission (NBSC), has urged Nigerians to regularly donate blood to improve their health and be able to have children.
Amedu gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, ahead of the forthcoming World Blood Donor Day, celebrated annually in June 14. The World Blood Donor Day is aimed at raising global awareness on the need for safe blood and blood production for transfusion.
According to him, regular blood donation not only saves lives but also enables the donor to obtain good health and renewed system.
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He encouraged more non-remunerated or unpaid blood donors to key into the commission’s One-Million-Safe-Blood-Units-Initiative (OMSBUI) project to increase the nation’s blood bank.
According to Amedu, when you are asked, requested or coerced to donate blood to someone you know, it means you are saving someone you know but voluntary unpaid donors are committed to save the lives of unseen and unknown persons, and for that we appreciate them for what they are doing.
“Our target is to ensure blood units collected will increase from the present 25,000 to one million by 2023 and three million by 2030,” he said.
He added that the theme for this year’s World Blood Donor Day is “Donating Blood is an act of Solidarity. Join the effort and save lives”. He said the theme is to highlight the critical contributions voluntary, unpaid blood donors would be making to national health systems.
