Call for public awareness on safe blood donation

Health expert Dr Fazal Rabi has stressed creating public awareness about ‘safe blood transfusion’ to save countless lives.

He shed light on the importance of voluntary unpaid blood transfusion as Pakistan’s annual blood transfusion requirement is approximately 4.8 million per year. Talking to PTV news channel Saturday, he said that in Pakistan, the awareness campaigns were more essential as the rate of blood donation was still low as compared to the rest of the world.

“There is a need to create awareness about voluntary blood donation to dispel misconceptions about blood donation. Creating the necessary infrastructure for making donations, screening the donated blood and its preservation on internationally accepted standards and norms are essential,” he explained.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 3^rd, 2023.