It was a hot and busy midday when Pinky, a girl student of class 7, was returning from her school, as always with her friends and through the school van richshaw. The road was quite crowded; everyone was trying to make their own ways to reach the destination, reducing the wastage of valuable time. Suddenly, a covered van that was trying to overtake a private car hit the car heavily and the running car, losing its control fall over the school van. It was horrible, because the tiny van with the cheerful young students got smashed causing injury to them. Pinky's condition was somewhat worse than the others as her hand was cut off and bled heavily. After she had been taken to the nearby clinic, blood was needed and an unknown person donated blood volunatarily. Two days later, while returning home, Pinky was thanking the unknown saver who provided blood during the emergency. Like the unknown saver thousands of secret social workers have been working by donating blood to the patients without even knowing them. This people are commonly known as blood donor. To pay respect to these human savers, UN has announced 14th June as world Blood Donor Day, that has been going on for several years.
Usually the blood collected from the voluntary donors is used for transfusion. Everyday more than 200,000 bags of blood are needed throughout the country. It's harder to buy the fresh blood. A large part of this problem has been donation organized by many organizations like Badhan, Shandhani, Quantum etc. By encouraging the donors and arranging various occasional programs, they collect blood, preserve them and provide during the time of emergency.
Anyone from 18 to 60 years old with a good health can donate blood if s/he dose not contain any diseases that can be transmitted through blood. One can donate blood a number of times in his life but the duration between two donations must be at least four months long.
Donating blood regularly provides some benefits to the donor such as keeping blood pressure and cholesterol normal, making him healthy. Also, it updates the donor about blood related diseases and keeps away from them. Moreover, it is a duty for all human to come forward to save the humanity.
So, let's take a step right now. Know your blood group and take mental preparation to donate blood when you are ready to do so.
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