The National Blood Services of Zimbabwe (NBSZ) will on 6 January 2022, reward blood donors with fuel coupons backed by Redan Petroleum.
Blood donors can claim a 5-litre fuel coupon tomorrow from the participating sites, namely Redan Greencroft in Harare, Redan Flyover in Mutare, and Bulawayo’s Redan Bellevue.
NBSZ communications officer Kudakwashe Chidziya told The Herald that the initiative is aimed at boosting the national blood bank. Chidziya said:
The partnership initiative is meant to intensify blood collections. Under this strategic partnership with Redan, which also considered the initiative under its corporate social responsibility programme, we as NBSZ and Redan saw it fit to give back to the community and our blood donors who are always supportive of saving lives through blood donations.
We are anticipating a huge turnout and we are hopeful that we can boost our stocks with at least 30 percent of our adequate stocks.
The campaign is only for January 6 and is open to anyone who would want to donate blood at the highlighted Redan sites on the flyer.
Our stocks are critically low which even saw us opening on January 2 for donors despite it being a holiday. We need to intensify our collections so that we have adequate stocks.
Currently, we are short of blood group type O and we appeal to O donors to come and donate.
For Harare and Bulawayo branches, statistical data shows that we are only having a day’s supply which shows how low our stocks are and at times we are unable to meet the required daily demand.
Zimbabwe requires an average daily supply of 315 units of blood groups A and AB to cover cases of trauma and emergencies countrywide. | The Herald