“EVERY DAY, AT LEAST 5 WOMEN LOSE THEIR LIVES IN LAYER, FAN OF BLOOD”
World Blood Donor Day
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This June 14, 2021 is the World Blood Donor Day. The national blood transfusion center in Dakar welcomed a crowd of people made up of health personnel, individuals, associations … This year, the theme is “give blood to make the heart of the world beat”.
A law on blood transfusion has been passed by the Head of State. Now a 17-year-old can donate blood, but with the parent’s permission. For Thierno Leconte Seck, president of ANDOBES, the Senegalese association of voluntary blood donors, “blood donation is very important because a single bag of blood can be beneficial to 03 patients”.
Appointed blood donation ambassador since November by the Minister of Health, wrestler Saliou Ngom, better known by the pseudonym of Zoss, he also speaks of the importance of blood donation. “In Senegal, every day at least 5 women lose their lives in childbirth because they lack blood. This is a huge number that people do not express, but I feel the need and the duty to do so so that people know the importance of donating blood.The people who need it are sickle cell patients, those on dialysis, people who have operations, victims of accidents … 40% of deaths are due to lack of blood. We have to say it and stop hiding things “.
This year, several people as well as associations were decorated either by way of recognition or as ambassador for blood donation. These distinctions are part of the commitment and motivation that these people make in the field of health. The United Project 1 association has just received a diploma of recognition. Yacine Demba Dramé, the secretary general of the administration of the association speaks of an honor.
“It is a great pleasure, an honor to be decorated today, to have a distinction in relation to blood donation, to the fight that we have been leading since the beginning of the United Project 1. It shows that the work that we do is not in vain, so we are really happy and honored to be decorated for the work that we do ”.
These young people also encourage the population to come and donate their blood in order to save lives, especially in recent days when there has been an increase in road accidents. A program to build regional blood transfusion centers has been set up and regions will soon benefit from it, notably Louga and Kaolack.
