Medical experts in Benin City, Edo State, on Friday raisedalarm that excess blood in the body is dangerous to health, urging Nigerians,particularly the rich to do blood donations every six months to save the livesof those in need of blood.
This was disclosed at the free blood donation Initiativeheld at the Benin Central Hospital, organized by the Edo State government incollaboration with the Women´s Health and Action Research Center (WHARC) andthe Tom Obaseki Foundation.
Declaring the free blood donation open, the Edo StateCommissioner for Health, Dr. David Osifo, who stressed the need for Nigeriansto donate blood to the needy, lamented that ¨as a consultant paediatrician, oneof the greatest challenges I face when I am operating a patient is bleeding.You sent for blood and they tell you there is no blood and the patient passesaway. And you also know that ordinary malaria fever is still killing ourchildren because they are short of blood and there is no blood to transfusethem and this could lead to death. Orbecause the parents could not afford blood, a pint of blood is about N6,000 andthey can´t afford it and they just watch helplessly and agonizingly to seetheir child dying.
We felt that should not happen at this time. We may not beable to transform our health institution to a standard that is attained abroad,but the little things we can do to save our people´s life, we felt we should dothat.
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Too Much Blood In The Body Dangerous To Health — Experts Warns
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