Blood Donors Month: More than just bloodletting
DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan - In 2012, Chairman Richard Gordon
of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) said the country needs to be prepared because
disasters have become bigger.
As predicted, Superstorm Yolanda (Haiyan) slammed Central
Philippines in 2013 leaving casualties of close to 3,000 residents in the
Visayas region.
Once again, the PRC as with other health workers and local
governments are knocking on every Filipino's doors to support the National
Blood Donors' Month and collect as many blood for banking to be served to
victims during calamities.
In Pangasinan, the Provincial Health Office and the Region
I Medical Center (R1MC) will start a series of bloodletting
activities in support of PRC's mission to ease sufferings in time of war, peace
and calamities.The schedules include the LGUs of Binalonan (July 8), Umingan
(July 21), Mangaldan (July 24), and Bayambang (July 26).
Donors from the Department of Education -West Central
Elementary School will donate on July 16 and the Maxima Technology School on
July 18. Employees and relatives of the Dagupan City City Electric Corporation
(DECORP) will donate on July 18 while employees and mall goers of Nepo
Mall in Dagupan City can donate on July 29.
Medical Technologist Trisha Ramos said Red Cross has enough
blood supply but the increase in blood supply is a must especially this rainy
season.
The Region I Medical Center (R1MC), also in the city, has
partnered with the provincial government through the Provincial Health Office
for blood donation activities in the province’s sixth district.
“The move is urgent and necessary to ensure safe and readily
available blood supply for dengue patients and for women with post-partum
hemorrhage. This is a medical service attuned to the Millennium Development
Goal (MDG) 5 which is Reducing Maternal Mortality,” said Provincial Health
Officer Anna Maria Teresa de Guzman.
Dahlia De Vera, nurse and blood recruitment officer of RIMC,
said several religious sectors have signified intention to lead blood donation
activities among their members.
These include the Iglesia Ni Cristo (July 5), Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints-Mormons (July 12), Methodist Church in Dagupan
(July 19), Seventh Day Adventist (July 26), Catholic Church led by Archbishop
Socrates Villegas in Malasiqui (July 20) and in Binmaley (July 29).
The Rural Health Unit of Mangaatrem town is scheduled
on July 18, Junior Chamaber Inc, Alaminos City chapter (July 20), LGU
Sison (July 22) and the Lyceum Northwestern University in Dagupan City (July
24).
De Vera said walk-in blood donors are welcome everyday at the
Region I Medical Center. (Venus Sarmiento/MCA//VHS/PIA1-Pangasinan)
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