Donate Blood for Yourself

Why Donate Blood?

Blood Donation doesn't need any special reason, It needs a good heart and peaceful mind, by Donating Blood you are not only helping a person but you are also helping yourself, Now your mind must be asking a Question that how can I help myself by donating blood?  

The answer is when you donate your blood; your body generates blood cells which increase your energy, and sensing power. This was from your point of view, now for Humanity we should donate blood regularly, you are doing best job of the world where you are not just saving a life but also giving a new life to the person.

Raah Social Welfare Society is a great platform where you can contribute as a voluntary blood donor and save lives. 

Uses of Blood you donate:

The Blood you donate is divided into three parts:

• Red Blood Cells
• Plasma
• Platelets

Red Blood Cell

2% used in road accident cases, 4% Obstetrics, including pregnant women, new mothers and young children, 10% Orthopedic patients including fractures and joint replacements, 13% Other medical problems including heart, Stomach and kidney disease, 19% Other causes of anemia, 18% Surgical patients including open heart surgery and burns, 34% of red cells are used for Cancer and diseases.

Plasma 
Plasma has a clotting factor which helps to stop bleeding; it is most required component of the blood to recover patient form serious injuries. As we know that India has the highest rank of road accidents in the world. By that you can understand who much the Indian hospitals and health care organization required blood.

Platelets
Platelets are used in major surgeries, or a patient has low platelet count or non functioning platelets who are bleeding or at high risk of bleeding. This may happen during high dose chemotherapy, bone marrow, transplantation, and liver disease. It also has growth factors that repairs damaged body tissue

Things Remember while Donating Blood
You must meet all the criteria in order to donate:

• Your age should be at least 18 years
• Weight should be at least 49 kg
• Your height should be at least 5’5”
• You are not suffering from any diseases at the time of donation
• You should not had major surgery recently
• Donor must have not donated blood in last three months
• He/she should not suffer from any blood related disease (AIDS, Blood cancer, Diabetes, etc)

RAAH NGO - Blood Donation Awareness Program

The need for transfusion is a made permanent and still growing within the new measures applied to therapeutic care activity. Maintain health system performance levels required adequate blood donation and blood components, and each time for more frequent and extensive form Transfusion Services live shortages. Thus, to achieve levels of blood donation appropriate should be a national priority to promote long within a sufficient number of donors and donations, which is devote the necessary resources and to base its activity on research on world but also in the promotional mechanisms, knowledge of what motivates or discourages people to donate. Speaking of donating blood is talk of solidarity with healthy sick.

Human blood is an essential product, despite the enormous progress technology, cannot be manufactured in the lab. Can be achieved only through the donation and therefore is a generous act of citizenship to solve a public problem. In ultimately, it is a social duty of all. Voluntary blood donor is best guarantee of quality and safety for the donor and recipient, a fact that has been particularly evident after knowledge news viral diseases that can be transmitted by blood transfused, and has led to strengthening. The donation is a voluntary, anonymous and altruistic act, legally established. The act of donating blood should be seated in a number of ethical reasons, ensuring full respect for the health of the donor and avoid behaviors that lead to exploitation of man by man. clinical reasons, transmitting the donor security printing in the sense that his act is medically controlled and minimizing as far as possible, the transmission of receptors infections.

We must begin to think that solidarity is not an outdated concept, overcome by new forms of relationship, but a rational necessity and a means of survival the human species. Possibly it would be very difficult to find a more ideal test bed to study the level of cohesion of a society and the extension of the concepts of cooperation and solidarity that exist therein, the field of blood donation. The solidarity and social awareness are the very basis of its existence, its purpose is well public need and the only barrier is the freedom of the individual. As for the information to be transmitted on the medical act of donation, we highlight three aspects:

• Provide assurance on the safety of the act of donating blood, as it is controlled by medical staff experienced in the care and treatment of the donor, causing no risk to the donor. You only need to be 18 years, weigh more than 50 pounds and be in good health. The donation does not exist any risk of contracting infectious diseases, since all the sanitary material used is a single use. In addition, donated blood undergoes process of comprehensive quality control for possible diseases contagious and in such case will not be used. Other fears arising from the fear of puncture or dizziness are unfounded because they are rare and not carry risks.

• Explain in detail what the blood donation; it is an act simple and brief, lasting no more than 10 minutes, where about 450 ml are collected. blood, which represents about 10% of blood flowing through the an adult body ... The replacement of removed items is Quick; the liquid or plasma does not take more than 24-48 hours and only RBCs need a month for their full replacement. Prior to an interview extraction is performed and donor medical examination (weight, making pulse and if auscultation Cardiopulmonary, blood pressure check and hemoglobin). You need to repeat that anyone who has doubts should confidently approach the donation because there they will try to clarify. The quality of the medical interview and its interrogation, respecting the privacy of the donor depends safeguarding the first blood donation: "It should not cause any harm to the donor or the receiver. “Finally, with the capture of refreshing, ending the act of giving blood. Its purpose is to replace the small loss of blood volume with fluids, controlled to maintain the donor to avoid fading post donation, gratify somehow and offer the ability to chat with other donors, including the fostering team spirit.

• Ensure that donated blood is not subject to financial transactions; that not negotiated with blood. The National Plan provides the Hemoterapia supply of blood and blood products through the Centers for Blood Transfusion public and private hospitals being used.

The entire above are some touches aimed at within the population a "personal self-reflection" about donating blood, to allow achieving a more favorable situation for everyone. And very special thanks to and all who are blood donors for their generosity and altruism; that their behavior is reflection to achieve a more just society.