blood donation
Be an Angel and donate blood
Can you believe that if you are 18 years old or older you can be someone’s saviour? You don’t have to have special powers, to be that all you need is yourself and the nearest blood bank. I was a 7 year old girl with kidney failure. Here in Kuwait there were no medicines for me, so my dad took me to London hoping for treatment and we found it. The doctors at the hospital scheduled me for an urgent surgery. But there were not enough blood units for them to start the operation. We could have found a solution but my mom decided to fly out to London and donate blood to me although she was 6 months pregnant and she could have risked her life and my brother’s. Good morning Mrs. Beth and my fellow classmates today I’m going to talk you over the need of donating blood, the process and what will happen if we donate our blood more.
Now I’m going to talk about the problem of donating blood. In the whole world there is blood insufficiency but specially here in Kuwait. There are not enough blood downers and many people are paying the consequences of that. According to redcrossblood.org we can’t get blood by producing it, the only way to get it is by the help of the generous downers and they stated that we need up to 41,000 of blood donations per day worldwide.
Now, it’s time to find out who can help and how can we save the day for them. Anyone who is 18 years old or older who is in a good shape, not pregnant, not taking antibiotics, not suffering from any diseases and if you have the ideal weight which ranks between 110 bounds and more can donate blood. First, we must start with actually going to the central blood bank here in Kuwait and donate. It’s located in Jabriya behind Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital. If you are a citizen you are going to need your ID as for non citizens you have to bring your passport with you. They are open from Sunday to Thursday from 7 a.m. till 8:30 p.m., Friday from 1 afternoon till 6:30 p.m. and finally from 8 a.m.
Can you believe that if you are 18 years old or older you can be someone’s saviour? You don’t have to have special powers, to be that all you need is yourself and the nearest blood bank. I was a 7 year old girl with kidney failure. Here in Kuwait there were no medicines for me, so my dad took me to London hoping for treatment and we found it. The doctors at the hospital scheduled me for an urgent surgery. But there were not enough blood units for them to start the operation. We could have found a solution but my mom decided to fly out to London and donate blood to me although she was 6 months pregnant and she could have risked her life and my brother’s. Good morning Mrs. Beth and my fellow classmates today I’m going to talk you over the need of donating blood, the process and what will happen if we donate our blood more.
Now I’m going to talk about the problem of donating blood. In the whole world there is blood insufficiency but specially here in Kuwait. There are not enough blood downers and many people are paying the consequences of that. According to redcrossblood.org we can’t get blood by producing it, the only way to get it is by the help of the generous downers and they stated that we need up to 41,000 of blood donations per day worldwide.
Now, it’s time to find out who can help and how can we save the day for them. Anyone who is 18 years old or older who is in a good shape, not pregnant, not taking antibiotics, not suffering from any diseases and if you have the ideal weight which ranks between 110 bounds and more can donate blood. First, we must start with actually going to the central blood bank here in Kuwait and donate. It’s located in Jabriya behind Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital. If you are a citizen you are going to need your ID as for non citizens you have to bring your passport with you. They are open from Sunday to Thursday from 7 a.m. till 8:30 p.m., Friday from 1 afternoon till 6:30 p.m. and finally from 8 a.m.