More Patients At Risk As Myths Drain Blood Banks Blood
Blaming the problem largely on apathy of knowledge and awareness, the president of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors , Dr. Emeka Orji, said Nigerians don’t behave like others from more developed countries where there is consciousness of donating blood in an attempt to help accident victims and even other victims of blood depletion who will need to be transfused.
“So government should also try to invest more in health. When you invest more in health, of course the blood bank services will also benefit, and most of the time, we are talking about whole blood here but the practice has gone beyond whole blood; there are so many components you can get from blood, and the idea is to give the person exactly what the person needs – the component of the blood that he or she needs by separation using the machine that is meant for it,” he explained.
In the same vein. Dr Ubong said access to facilities for donation and for storage are also part of the issues. Ubong said when you already have background experience, it is difficult for you to present yourself to the hospital where the blood donation will be taking because it is the same health workers that will be there to collect blood from you.LEADERSHIP checks revealed that there are several myths impeding the country’s blood bank target. The most common is the belief that the blood donated for free is sold to needy patients.
Demystifying some of the myths, Dr. Ubong explained that every individual can donate blood unless the person is less than 18 years or more than 65 years, while stating that women may not donate because of the monthly menstrual flow. Also, those who have just been recently transfused cannot donate blood as well as women who have had a minor surgery in the past six months because during surgery, they lose blood.
The physician told LEADERSHIP that screening of the blood is part of the process to make the blood safe, saying after collecting blood from a donor, the blood still needs to be kept in a refrigerator because if it is kept in an open place at room temperature, it will no longer be viable. “When you see things like maybe donor T-shirts, face caps and all the items that are given to donors, it is because we’ve collaborated with other organisations that maybe donated those items for that purpose.
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