When: Friday, January 13th, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Cost/Fee: Free
Location: Kuwait Central Blood Bank, Jabriya
(GPS: 29.32704,48.030446)
Quick Facts:
- You can donate blood 3 times a year, which comes to roughly every 16 weeks.
- You only lose about 470 ml, which is just under a pint, and not, as some have thought, quite an armful. Bodies are amazing things, and yours will replace that lost fluid in a very short period of time.
- Anyone between the age of 18 and 60, who is in good health may donate blood.
- All blood groups are needed, whether common or rare
- Donating blood not only saves lives, but may also benefit you as well. Excess iron in the blood stream has been known to cause heart attacks. The only way to remove excess iron is by loss of blood, so donating blood will lower the risk of pending heart attacks
- A number of donors have a higher number of red blood cells than normal, which increases the viscosity of blood and causes headaches. Donating blood can relieve these types of headaches
- Donating blood is also thought to help reduce high blood pressure
- Giving blood is normally painless and quick.
- Complete restoration of blood volume only takes 72 hours.
- Donated blood can be separated into multiple individual components that could help save multiple lives. From one unit of blood, red blood cells can be extracted for use in trauma or surgical patients. Plasma, the liquid part of blood, is administered to patients with clotting problems. The third component of blood, i.e., platelets, clots the blood when cuts or other open wounds occur, and are often used in cancer and transplant patients.