Sierra Leone commemorates World Blood Donor Day with campaign to recruit more voluntary donors
Sierra Leone commemorated World Blood Donor Day (WBDD)2011 on the theme “More blood. More life”. The theme highlights the need to collect more blood and to ensure the availability and accessibility of blood to a larger number of patients to save their lives. Commemoration of the Day still continues in the country with a chain of community outreach activities to recruit more voluntary blood donors and to collect more safe blood for the National Safe Blood Services. These activities are being undertaken by both the voluntary donors themselves and Ministry of Health official and partners.
Dr Samuel Baker, Manager of the National Safe Blood Services said at a press conference held at his office that only 30 percent of all blood collected come from voluntary donation.