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Tamale, Ghana – MTN Ghana Foundation with support from the Blood Bank Unit of the Tamale Teaching Hospital and other District Hospitals on Wednesday February 14th mobilised 621 units of blood from students of selected senior high schools across the Northern Region.
The blood donation exercise by MTN Ghana Foundation was part of its annual Save a Life Campaign initiative which started in 2011.
Through the Save a Life Campaign initiative, the MTN Ghana Foundation in collaboration with the National Blood Bank and public hospitals across the country, mobilise blood resources from the general public to restock their blood banks so that they could adequately deal with urgent medical situations that require blood products or transfusion.
This initiative, according to Collins Agyei, Northern Sector Area Sales Manager of MTN Ghana, had over the years, mobilized thousands of blood resources from Ghanaians to support hospitals run efficiently.
“In the Northern Region today, we’re doing this blood donation exercise at Ghana Senior High School, Tamale Senior High School, Northern School of Business, Bimbilla and other places.
“We chose to do this every year in the month of love which is February. We want to use the occasion to show love to our friends, relatives and other Ghanaians on admission in hospitals and urgently in need of blood”, he told SavannahNewsOnline and other journalists in an interview in Tamale .
Mr. Agyei said the target set for this year was to mobilise 7,000 units of blood across the country.
He commended the management of the National Blood Bank, staff of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Blood Bank Unit, staff of MTN Ghana and particularly the general public for their consistent partnership and support over the last ten years.
Leader of the Blood Donation Team at Ghana Senior High School, Alidu Issahaku encouraged the general public to find time and walk in anytime at the Tamale Teaching Hospital or any public hospital and request to donate blood.
He explained that blood donation saves the life of people who are sick and need blood transfusion to survive, adding that, those who also donate blood benefit a minimum amount of health screening as donors because they get to know whether they are healthy when their blood is thoroughly screened for any potential infections.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Philip Liebs
