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Melcom Organizes Nationwide Blood Donation To Save Lives

By Adnan Adams Mohammed
General News Melcom Organizes Nationwide Blood Donation To Save Lives
JUL 29, 2016 LISTEN

The Melcom Group of Companies, under its charity organization, Melcom Care Foundation, has organized a nationwide blood donation exercise in 18 of its branches to support the Ghana Blood Transfusion Service with the view of enhancing health care delivery in the country.

The exercise is an annual event designed by Melcom to support health delivery system in the country.

As part of measures to generate blood for hospitals across the country, the Melcom Care Foundation, which is a welfare organization set up to provide help and assistance to the most vulnerable in society, organized the exercise for its staff and the general public.

Speaking in an interview with journalists, Melcom Group Communication Director, Godwin Avenorgbo said Ghana's number 'one' stop shop had positioned itself in the last four years to assist the Blood Transfusion Service to save lives.

Addressing donors and reporters at Melcom Plus branch of the company last Thursday, he said his outfit's interest to assist the Service was because blood is the most important substance of human life and, therefore, it must be made available at all times in the hospitals' blood banks.

Blood is often needed for expected mothers, sickle cell patients and accident victims that are under life threatening conditions, he explained.

Mr. Avenorgbo said research has shown that people who donate blood stand the chance of balance iron level in the blood, better blood flow, mini physical and longer life.

He advised Ghanaians not to wait until their relatives are seriously in need of blood before they give themselves out for donation.

It is however prudent for persons above 18 years of age to make it a point to donate blood voluntarily to help others and the whole society. Blood can be donated at least once or twice a year, but Hypertension and AIDS patients as well as homosexuals are exempted from this exercise.

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