Nigeria needs more blood donors

Donating blood is a critical act of kindness that directly preserves human life, supports, and offers a lifetimes to those battling chronic health conditions. The simple act of giving blood has a profound impacts. It is essential for emergency life-saving efforts, provide necessary components for major surgeries and cancer treatments, and significantly improve the quality of life for individuals managing long-term illnesses. Even with its youthful population of over 200 million, just a small fraction of Nigerians donate blood. People are often reluctant to give blood because of the belief that donating will make them sick or weaken them. As a matter of fact, people have to develop a mindset that the blood donation is contributing to a common pool of life from which anyone of us will be sustain life. The National Blood Service Agency is the dedicated Nigerian agency that manages the collection of blood to meet national health care needs. It has offices in every state working to ensure that blood is safe for the recipient. People really need to go and contribute to save the life.

Why blood donors are needed It is life-saving necessity for critical conditions: donating blood is essential for a wide range of medical need 1. Maternal Health: addressing severe bleeding during childbirth, a major cause of maternal mortality in Nigeria. 2. Emergency and Trauma: Treating victims of accident, injuries and surgeries. 3. Chronic Illnesses: like sickle cell disease, which has a high prevalence in Nigeria, cancer and severe anemia. – limited shelf life. Blood and its components have a limited storage period, requiring a constant and steady flow of donation to maintain an adequate supply in blood banks

Health benefits for the donor – stimulate new blood cell production: the body replaces the donated blood, which stimulate the production of new blood cell and other blood components. – Reduce iron stores: Donating blood can help reduce the amount of iron in the body which may lower the risk of cancer. From the foregoing, therefore, Nigerians should know that donating blood is a quick and easy way to score big. People need to visit the National Blood Service Agency Centre nearest to them to save the life of those in need.

Muhammad Maidala Umar Azare can be reached via [email protected]

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