Obrempon fm,
an Agona Swedru based FM station has organized a blood donation exercise to
support the blood bank at the swedru government Hospital. The exercise which is
organized by the radio station every April 26 as part of their cooperate
resposibilty has taken place for the third time since 2012.
The exercise dubbed “Drop a blood to save a life
organized at the Metro Mass Transit Bus station, was supervised by health
officials from the swedru municipal hospital and patronized by members of the
public. Speaking on behalf of the swedru municipal hospital, Mr. Nkansah
micheal, a Biomedical Laboratory scientist
of the hospital noted some challenges of the hospital as
Lacking blood
in the blood bank that can serve the whole encatchment area which comes as a
result of lots of emergency cases referred to the facility from nearby hospitals
which requires adequate blood to deal with such situations. , it is in the
light of this that there is the need to shore up the pints of blood at the
hospitals blood bank to prevent death as a results of blood shortage.
The
general manager of the station Nana Yaw Ayensu said as part of their cooperate
social society they hope to stock the Agona swedru blood bank by donating. They
also give out donor certificate from the ministry of education and some items
to everybody that donates.SOURCE: BUABENG PHILEMON
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