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Blood Donation
• 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.
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• In addition to the value of this great humanitarian work, you can also benefit from blood donation as it helps in:
1. Lowering the risk of suffering from heart attack. 2. Reducing cancer risk. 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. 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. 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. On the 11th of December, we were in ( ناــفع يــنب) village as these places have a high percentage of misconceptions about blood donation. 4. On the 15th of December ( نــييعارزلا نادــيم), it was a cooperation with EPSF-NUB to unify and intensify our efforts.
• After that, we continued on our social media platforms till the 19th of December.
• Conclusion: • We achieved our goal, more than 1,500 of the public are now aware of blood donation benefits and about anemia (its types and how to overcome it whether through food or medication) from the offline campaign and nearly 1200 from the online campaign. • More than 84 blood bags were collected, and the blood pressure was measured for more than 200 people.
Anemia cases were also registered to follow up with them, which reached more than 150 cases.
•Finally, you can be a hero of someone’s life, you can resurrect him with little drops of your blood. Our society in great need of blood donation to fill this defect by 2030, so we have another phase in March.
