World Blood Donor Day; Share Life, Give Blood

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By: Ayoola Olaitan and Amori Christianah

Many people in the world are ignorant of the fact that donation of blood means giving someone a life. Everyone deserves a right to live, there is therefore an urgent need to inform people about the importance of donating blood and blood products in order to save lives. 

World Blood Donor Day is observed yearly by all member states of the World Health Organization to encourage the donation of blood and also thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood.

World Blood Donor Day is one of eight official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day, and World AIDS Day. The World Blood Donor Day is an annual event, usually celebrated on the 14th of June every year to thank voluntary Blood donors, acknowledge them and encourage blood donation and new donors, especially by representing how blood donations have saved and changed lives. The Day has the slogan ‘Share Life, Give Blood’, referring to the caring and cohesion that giving blood and caring for others involves.

World Blood Donor Day 2018 will be hosted by Greece, with the theme ‘Blood Connects us All’.One of the aims of the day is to encourage younger people, who might be a bit nervous or unsure about giving blood, to feel encouraged to sign up and start donating, so that the donor population doesn’t decline but stays strong. It is also to highlight the need to for donations to be regular in order to keep stocks and quality of blood donations high.

Blood donation saves millions of lives annually and helps with the recovery and health of patients who have illnesses or injuries, complex operations or childbirth problems. Blood stocks are also essential in natural and man-made disasters. Some blood types are rare, so promoting the need for rare donor types is also part of this event. World Blood Donor Day is vital in highlighting the need for blood donors and regular donations.

However, Many countries still have a shortage of donors, and thus World Blood Donor Day is vital to these countries to raise awareness of blood donation and thus increase supply in order to save as many lives as possible.


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