Sharjah hospital organizes blood donation campaign

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Sharjah hospital organizes blood donation campaign. Zulekha Hospital Sharjah and the Sharjah Blood Transfusion and Research Centre want more residents to donate blood. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Donate blood, save life.

00:10That is the campaign mantra of the blood donation and awareness campaign by Zuleka Hospital

00:15in Sharjah.

00:16The blood donation drive has been organized in association with the Sharjah Blood Transfusion

00:21and Research Center and the Ministry of Health.

00:24What we're doing is we're having the blood bank's mobile donation van come here.

00:30What we've done is we've sent out SMSs and reached out to our patient base requesting

00:37everybody to provide us, basically to donate blood.

00:43And what we've told the blood bank is we're going to tap into our entire patient base

00:46to do that.

00:47The activity was held inside a bus, which has been refurbished with state-of-the-art

00:51health care facilities specifically designed for bloodletting.

00:55Give people a chance, they know where Zuleka Hospital is, to come in and donate blood

01:01if they want to.

01:02Sometimes it may be difficult for them to find where the blood bank is, it may be difficult

01:06for them to go, but if they're just coming to the hospital anyway for a routine check-up

01:10or for whatever, they can come here, they can donate that blood, and that becomes so

01:14much easier.

01:15And they're fulfilling, I think, something they really want to do, which is be socially

01:19responsible.

01:20We all want to be socially responsible, but sometimes we find the logistics to be difficult.

01:26But this is just helping to make that easier.

01:28This is the first time that I'm donating blood in the UAE.

01:31I have donated earlier in India.

01:34I like donating blood because, I mean, our blood can save someone's life.

01:39So this is just a small thing, the small price that we are paying to save someone else from

01:44receiving our blood.

01:45Last year I tried to give the blood, but unfortunately I couldn't.

01:49This time I'm very happy to give the blood, and again, if required, I will definitely

01:53give it in the future.

01:54However, residents who have visited certain countries in East Asian Africa in the past

01:59year are not eligible to donate blood.

02:02The hospital says the blood collection process is conducted under expert supervision and

02:07hygienic conditions.

02:08This blood is screened extensively, and we feel very confident with the screening methodologies

02:14that have been used by the Sharjah Blood Bank, and we're happy to partner with them so

02:18that they can build up their bank and the amount of blood that they have, because that

02:23really helps us and everybody else around also.

02:26So that's been the thing that's motivated us.

02:30These days there's a lot of emphasis on corporate social responsibility, but I think this is

02:34an individual responsibility also that we all have.

02:37We all have friends, we all have relatives, and we ourselves could always need blood.

02:42All residents are encouraged to be part of the campaign.

02:46should not be fasting, must be between 18 to 65 years old, and weigh no less than 55 kilograms.

02:52Irish Eden Belieza for Gulf News.

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