• By one blood bag, you can save up to three lives, so EPSF-BeniSuef holds the Blood Donation Campaign every year for almost 11 years; to raise awareness and correct misconceptions about blood donation. • Currently, the percentage of blood donors in Egypt is only about %1 of the total population and we need it to be %3 to achieve self-sufficiency of blood bags by 2030. • In addition to the value of this great humanitarian work, you can also benefit from blood donation as it helps in: 1 1. Lowering the risk of suffering from heart attack. 2 2. Reducing cancer risk. 3 3. Getting rid of extra iron; as its increase causes toxicity. • This campaign covers many different regions as it consists of several phases and the first phase was from 7th to 19th of December 2020: 1 1. On the 7th of December, we made a workshop in BeniSuef Pharmacists’ Syndicate to facilitate the topic and to be ready to aware the public. 2 2. On the 8th and 9th of December (University region days), we aware a large number of university students about the benefits of blood donation and the national duty towards it. 3 3. On the 11th of December, we were in ( )بنــي عفــانvillage as these places have a high percentage of misconceptions about blood donation. 4 4. On the 15th of December ( )ميــدان الزراعييــن, it was a cooperation with EPSF-NUB to unify and intensify our efforts.
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