The Keeper’s House Chapel International has organized a blood donation exercise to augment the supplies for the Greater Accra Regional blood bank.
The exercise, which formed part of the church’s eighth-anniversary celebration, was held at its premises at Madina in Accra.
Sixty-four members voluntarily donated 64 units of blood to the blood bank.
In his remarks, Reverend Ebenezer Hamilton, Chairman of the Anniversary Committee, said the blood donation was part of the church’s social responsibility to save lives.
He said news abound that there was a shortage of blood at the blood bank while a lot of people needed blood to aid their recovery.
Reverend Hamilton, therefore, urged members of the church to come out in their numbers to donate blood to save livers.
Consequently, he said, the members came out to donate blood despite the heavy downpour.
Reverend Hamilton noted that this was not the first time that the Keeper’s House Chapel International was donating blood to the Blood Bank.
He urged the public to also follow suit by taking the initiative to donate blood to the Bank to save lives.
Reverend Hamilton asked the people not to be scared about donating blood, and stressed that it was rather good for their health.
“Blood donation is not harmful. The more you donate, the better for you”, he stressed.
Briefing the media on the exercise, a medical officer with the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Dr. Emmanuel Addipa-Adapoe, noted that blood is an important drug that could not be manufactured but could only be donated.
He said although voluntary donation was the purest and best form of donation compared to replacement and commercial donations, it constituted less than 30 percent of the collection pool in the country.
Dr. Addipa-Adapoe, who is a member of the Covid-19 Management and Rapid Response Team, said every unit of blood could save four lives.
He mentioned people who are bleeding, such as women during delivery, accident victims, and also people with anaemia as some of the patients whose lives could be saved with blood.
Dr. Addipa-Adapoe, therefore, lauded members of the Keeper’s House Chapel International for the show of enthusiasm by defying the heavy downpour to voluntarily donate blood to save lives.
He urged the public to follow suit by taking the initiative to donate blood to the Bank to save lives.