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National Blood Services Zimbabwe Faces Severe Blood Shortage

4 weeks agoMon, 09 Dec 2024 13:59:51 GMT
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National Blood Services Zimbabwe Faces Severe Blood Shortage

The National Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ) aims to collect 88,430 units of blood by the end of 2024 as part of efforts to bolster its reserves amidst declining stock levels.

To achieve this goal, NBSZ has launched a nationwide campaign running from December 6 to January 14, with the target of collecting 7,460 units of blood during the period.

Speaking to journalists in Harare last week, NBSZ Chief Executive Lucy Marowa revealed that the organization currently has only a one-day supply of blood for group O and a five-day supply for other blood types. She said (via NewsDay):

From January to November 2024, the target was to collect 80 970 whole blood units but we managed to collect 71 544 units and our target [for the year] is 88 430 units.

Total collections for 2023 were 7 0187 while 2024 collections to date have already surpassed 2 023. The target for December 2024, the festive season month, is 7,460 whole blood units.

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Most of the blood that we get in the country comes primarily from the school-going age, with over 70% of our collections coming in from the high school.

So, when schools are closed, as they are right now, as they have recently closed in the past week, there is a gap that is created.

Mrowa also pleaded with young people who have pledged to donate at least 25 times before turning 30 to address the blood shortage, to come forward during this period. She said:

We had already started with the Pledge 25 blood collections. The Pledge 25 is a group of young men and women who have recently left school and made an undertaking to donate blood at least 25 times in their lives before they turn the age of 30.

We urge all able-bodied Zimbabweans between the ages of 16 and 65, in good health and weighing over 50kg, to come forward and donate blood.

Our mobile clinics will be operating throughout the country and we encourage the public to take advantage of these services.

More: Pindula News

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34 Comments

Donor · 3 weeks ago
Donors must be identifiable in case they need blood themselves. They must have it for free. It's not too much to ask for once in their life time. Unless it's now used by this weird government for satanic rituals. Havadi kushotesa dura raSatan. They want donors to give, yet they don't want donors to live. Chipananai renyu imi vane mari.
Generous · 3 weeks ago
They can't donate to each other because those with money have contaminated blood
Mai Stella · 3 weeks ago
ndidoneta kupi ropa racho ndazogaya bho
mwenewazvo · 3 weeks ago
munonyanya kuda ropa revanhu mahara.mazuvano muzimbabwe hakusisina zvemahara.vanhu vakaonera chigame chacho kuti mukuvaitisa,dai muchizoti mukatora ropa mahara muchipawo mahara better
💰CBD BOSS💰 · 4 weeks ago
vanhu havasisina hutano
father flour · 4 weeks ago
madhuriro acho arinozoita ropa iroro
Jaison Ndlovu · 4 weeks ago
Zvinongorwadza kuti unodhoneta ropa rako asi kana warwara woshaya makunung'unu ekutenga ropa riyazve, wofa hako
Baba Jukwa · 4 weeks ago
give us money nothing for mahala
Mazuva · 4 weeks ago
I stopped giving blood. I imagined that one day I can get involved in a nasty road traffic accident on my way from donating blood and I will fail to get even my very own blood. I will have to be very rich to be saved by my own blood.
Niton · 4 weeks ago
Gadzirai nemvura hantii tokupai Ropa mahara imi modhurisa hama dzedu dzofa nekurishaya
Detective Pikachu Pokemon · 4 weeks ago
NBSZ imbavha
Ndambakuudzwa · 4 weeks ago
can you please enlight me on how they manipulate things
𝙎𝙞𝙮𝙤𝙮𝙤 · 4 weeks ago
iwe @Mp hakudiwi ropa rine zvirwere HIV, AIDS etc kunotodiwa ropa rakachena revanhu vane utano
𝙎𝙞𝙮𝙤𝙮𝙤 · 4 weeks ago
NBSZ inoshaya ropa nei, ko vanhu ve ZANU PF havana here
Mp · 4 weeks ago
ED and his family have all the blood groups from A to Z
Mp · 4 weeks ago
Zanupf chefs vanematama nekudya drain them to come nice using pump
Giant · 4 weeks ago
Ko kana ndikaDonater blood racho hama yangu yorwara zvekuda additional blood zvinofambiswa sei or ndinongotenga zvakadaro 2ndly ndichidonater blood inini ndikarwara zvekuda blood ndinotenga here or else ndopiwa mahara
Tuga Maruga · 4 weeks ago
vanhu vazhinji vave neAIDS saka ndosaka vasisauye kuzokupai ropa ravo
Corruptmore Looto · 4 weeks ago
Aaah 😂😂, do you know the percentage of people who have the virus in the country is too low to create a real shortage, over 60% of the total population do not have it.
tavez.com · 4 weeks ago
yamunozotengesa nayo iyoyo garayi madipa then rave deal. pasina izvozvo kwte
fox · 4 weeks ago
it's very unfair... you want us to donate blood for free but you sell it for at high price ..what's that..?
Priscilla💃 · 4 weeks ago
they only give a glass of mazoe if u give them your blood but when u need it they will sale it for u at high price
👉👌Man to Man · 4 weeks ago
ini handidi neropa rangu
Tuga Maruga · 4 weeks ago
rako rine muzvezve
hoy · 4 weeks ago
biťćh
Mp · 4 weeks ago
The other alternative is drain 100 litres from ED
👉👌Man to Man · 4 weeks ago
kkkk
Pombi yadonha · 4 weeks ago
kkkkkkkkk
LTM · 4 weeks ago
🤣🤣🤣
Mp · 4 weeks ago
Zanupf is vampire sucking blood from citizen that the reason for blood shortage

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