Tabou, Administrative staff, teachers and students from secondary schools in Tabou took part in a blood collection operation initiated by the regional branch of the National Center for Blood Transfusions (CNTS) in San Pedro to strengthen its blood product capacities.
This blood donation operation began at the Barou Adjéhi Valentin modern high school on Wednesday April 27, 2022, and continued in the city’s private secondary schools where several people participated voluntarily to help save lives in hospitals.
At this high school, 130 blood bags were collected. The principal, Laciné Fofana, believes that this quantity could be improved in the future, if the CNTS deploys more staff for collection. For this operation, he pointed out, only three sampling points were open, forcing students to wait for a long time. Consequently, several of them could not be sampled.
“Giving blood is a humanitarian act,” said Mr. Fofana. He welcomed the initiative and promised the availability of staff and students of his establishment for other operations.
The CNTS regional branch team responsible for data collection has promised to take these observations into account. In March, she had initiated a similar blood collection operation at the Jules Hié Néa modern high school and at the Tezo private college in Grabo.
The CNTS is the only national institution that is entrusted with the mission of collecting blood from the populations, analyzing it, treating it and making it available in health structures throughout the Ivorian territory.
In accordance with its awareness mission, its leaders continue to call for voluntary blood donation at the national and regional level, to enable Côte d’Ivoire to achieve the goal of blood self-sufficiency. The country produces only 160,000 bags of blood where the needs are 250,000 bags for a population of 25 million inhabitants, they regret.
(AIP)
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