A run down on Blood Donor Day 2018
Posted on: 14/Jun/2018 9:38:44 AM
June 14 marks to be the World Blood Donor Day often referred to as WBDD. Since 2004, as a way to encourage and spread awareness about blood donation, and as a sign of thanking donors, this day is annually celebrated.
WBDD is one among the global public health campaigns as determined by WHO.
The history behind
This day marks to be the birth anniversary of Kari Landsteiner – a revered scientist and a Nobel Prize recipient for discovering ABO blood group system.
Themes of Blood Donor Day
Every year, the blood donor day is celebrated with a specific theme. Listed below are a few:
2012 – Every donor is considered to be a hero
2013 – Donate blood and share the life’s ultimate gift
2014 – Donate blood in order to save lives of mothers – this was promoted to save maternity deaths
2015 – as a token of thanks to every donors
2016 – Blood is the stream connecting lives
2017 – Keep donating blood now and often
In this year, blood donor day is to be celebrated with the theme of donating blood and being there for other lives, for some random ones!
MBlood – pioneering blood donation app
As a move to ease the task of finding blood donors, SPPL Jain Charitable Trust has come up with an exclusive mobile app called MBlood Donor App. This simplifies the entire process of donating blood and receiving blood and platelets. The users can raise their request for specific blood groups 24*7 from any random location. Their request may contain the deadline within which the blood is required. Upon raising request, the other MBlood app users will be updated and the interested/willing donors may come forward to donate blood. Thus, the app acts as a channel to connect the needy and donor volunteer. This is very handy and comes gifted at crucial periods.
Now you can download the MBlood Donor App in Google Play Store.
Here is the link for MBlood Donor App.
