The Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service has called for voluntary blood donors.
“We are working with the government to ensure a fair amount for all whereby, the government bears part of the cost so that the heavy cost is not transferred to the patients and personnel that prepared the blood.”
Also speaking, Director of Pathology Services, Lagos State, Babafemi Thomas, added that blood donation needs would be met if two percent of the population could be recruited to be voluntary donors. “We should encourage people to see the value of blood and blood products in the health sector. The advice is to encourage people or recruit people in that manner to be voluntary donors.
“I will suggest that we look into the health sector and subsidise that environment. “When it comes to things like cancers, which also blood products are very essential for, it may be something too humongous for an average person to meet financially, so it may be in the interest of the government to promote the health of its workforce for the productivity of the country at large,” he said.All rights reserved.
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