Donate Blood, Save Lives
March 7th, 2010 at 11:49 pm (Know Your Neighbor, News, general)

A.P. Mohan Das, is the Chief Executive of Madras Egmore Loins Blood Bank and Research Foundation, No-130, Marshals Road, Egmore, Chennai-8. Voluntary blood donation has been an integral part of the service activities of Lions in the Lions District 324 A-1 for over two decades. “Lions Blood Bank & Research Foundation” - a standing monument of peoples’ initiative and sustained efforts to solve a problem. This prestigious project was commissioned on 30th June 1984 during the gubernatorial year of Lion Dr R Rabindranath and inaugurated by the then Health Minister, Government of Madras, Lion Dr H V Hande. Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa visited the Blood Bank on March 3, 1985 and blessed the project while appreciating the move to help “God’s People”. The core value of the Lions Blood Bank are namely Passion/Compassion, Professionalism, Creativity, Sensitivity To Changes, Courage, Integrity and Growth Oriented ness. Lions Blood Bank, Tamil Nadu’s one of the largest and the most Modern Blood Bank is striving to bring a change in Indian Blood Banking. Lions Blood Bank has professionals from different arenas with a common objective of “Sharing Life. Saving lives”.
People who work for Lions Blood Bank have an unmatched capacity for caring and commitment to saving lives. At Lions Blood Bank, each unit of blood passes through a rigorous screening process for Malaria, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis and HIV. There is no substitute for human blood. It cannot be manufactured. There is a constant need for blood donation to meet the demand of blood and its components. Blood donated by you can save the life of someone who is undergoing surgery or has lost blood in an injury or childbirth. Blood is also needed by cancer patients and patients of Haemophilia, Thalassaemia and severe anaemia. Nobody knows who will require blood, when and where.
A good and regular donor base in the community is insurance for all. Donating blood makes you aware of your blood group. In addition, a person who donates blood gets a free health check-up.Voluntary or non-remunerated blood donation is important because it is the source of the healthiest blood. A individual can donate 350 ml at one time. This is just 7 % of the 5 liters of blood in your body, and can be donated without causing you any harm at all.
The human body naturally replenishes this amount of blood within 24 hours to few days.Blood can be donated once every 3 months by a person. Or, in other words, you can donate blood up to 4 times a year. Blood donation is safe. A person cannot get any infection, including HIV, while donating blood as all consumables and equipment used during the process are sterile and safe from infection.
A individual will only be accepted as a blood donor if you weigh more than 45 kgs and have an adequate haemoglobin count, in which case you will not feel any weakness or discomfort. One can resume your normal activities, including driving, immediately after donation.. The actual process of donation only takes a few minutes. A person can donate blood at any licensed blood bank.
The Madras Egmore Lions Blood Bank and Research Foundation office can be contacted on 28414949, 28415959. The Lions Blood Bank toll free helpline No is 1910.













