ROXAS City — More bags of blood are expected to be added in the blood bank of the Philippine Red Cross – Capiz with six mass blood donation (MBD) activities this month.
“Initially about 70 bags of blood were generated from the earlier MBD activities at St. Anthony College Hospital (SACH), Barangays Bago Grande and Tanza Norte in Panay town, as well as (Brgy.) Poblacion Sur in Ivisan,” said Ray Martinez, Red Cross-Capiz Blood Service representative.
Another mass blood donation activity organized by the Youth for Christ will be held tomorrow at the Capiz National High School here and JEMS Barbershop at the Red Cross-Capiz building, he added.
Bloodletting activities are in time with the surge of dengue cases in the province, which had 602 suspected dengue patients with seven deaths from January to October 13 this year.
The series of mass blood donations this October was part of Red Cross’ advocacy to encourage various groups to organize voluntary blood donation activities to address the emerging need for blood.
The daily blood requirement per day in the province is 20 bags or 6,500 bags per year. (Alex Lumaque, PIA-6 Capiz
