Be a voluntary blood donor in Indore

Blood donation is required, why?

If you leave the blood makes it an important effort. Blood cannot be manufactured artificially and is a commodity that cannot be stored longer than six weeks. The blood leaving is used in connection with such operations and the treatment of various diseases.

Where to donate blood?

As a voluntary blood donor you can donate blood at specific blood center or blood buses or you can register on Raah Social Welfare Society as a voluntary blood donor in Indore. Men may make blood more than four times per year, and women no more than three times per year.

Who can donate blood?

In order to become a blood donor you must be between 18 and 60 years old, healthy and having a body weight of 50 kg. Blood Centre also check that the blood count is high enough. The value is usually called hemoglobin, which stands for hemoglobin in the blood. For men shall be HB less than 135 grams per liter in order to submit blood and for women less than 125 grams per liter. There are also restrictions on, for example, are pregnant, have been abroad or may have been exposed to contaminated blood. 

• As a blood donor, you have a great responsibility: As donors helps you not only to save other people's lives and health. Together with the staff at the donation center, you also have a responsibility to patients not at risk of getting infected blood.
• The blood must be free from infection: In order to be sure that the blood in the blood bank is free from infection takes blood bank samples every time you give blood. What we are looking for include jaundice, syphilis and HIV. You also need to make a health declaration and tell me if you somehow could have been exposed to contaminated blood. Your blood center can then decide if you need to wait for some time or lump it. We always take the safe than sorry.

What is the procedure to donate blood?

• Visit to the donation center or blood bus takes about half an hour. In order to submit blood must identify them with a valid identity document. Then you fill out a questionnaire with questions about their health.
• Then you must lie down on a gurney. A nurse inserts a needle into a vein in one elbow. The needle is left during donation and is coupled to a plastic tube that leads out to a blood collection bag.
• The actual blood donation takes about ten minutes and leaving about four and a half deciliter of blood. The blood is checked to prevent some spread of infectious diseases, including hepatitis and HIV.

How will I feel afterwards?

Most people do not experience any discomfort when they give blood, but you can occasionally feel a little dizzy. Afterwards, it is good to stay a while and take it easy. It is customary to be offered something to eat and drink to help your body to restore fluid balance. The next few days after you've left the blood are good to refrain from vigorous exercise. Because new blood is formed all the time, there are already a few weeks as many cells as usual in the blood again. Formation of new blood means that it takes extra iron. Therefore, the man with the iron tablets that you will take in a few weeks.