Have you ever donated blood?

BACKGROUND:
Jocy Asio’s father paid Shs30,000 for petrol for an ambulance to rush the 19-year-old suffering from post-natal bleeding to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital only to be told there was no blood.

The country has in the last few weeks experienced a blood shortage. The Health ministry this week sent blood but for emergency cases only.

At the age of 17, if a person is in good health, then they are eligible to donate blood. But many young people are not turning up for voluntary blood donation campaigns, part of the reason experts say is contributing to the current blood shortage. About 46 per cent of the population is aged 15 to 54 years, meaning that in effect only 17 million Ugandans are eligible to donate blood and of these, less than 170,000 actually do regularly donate blood.

QUESTION:
Have you ever donated blood?
YES
NO

INSTRUCTIONS
Go to messages on your phone type in DELTA followed by either YES or  NO, plus YOUR REASON and send to 8585. FREE of charge


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