World Blood Donor Day | 5% for SL-Charity

Today is the 14th of June. There is a specialty of this day because today is world blood donor day. There is a reason behind naming this kind of day. So, the reason is to providing awareness about the need for blood and blood products for critical situations and also to inform the importance of voluntary blood donors. Every year this day is celebrated with these. So, in this day theme is “Give blood and keep the world-beating”.

Actually, donating blood is very important. Every day there are so many accidents are happening in a country even in Sri Lanka. So, there are so many critical situations are happening every day. Someone may need blood due to some diseases. We know that we can’t give blood to everyone because the donor‘s blood group and the receiver’s blood group should be matched. If it is not there are some other critical situations may happen. Due to that, there is a need for a blood bank.

In Sri Lanka, the National blood transfusion service is established by the government for handling this critical situation. It provides the blood and also the blood component to the hospitals over the country. There are some blood banks are situated in the country for providing blood to everyone in the country who needs them in a critical situation. In our country, there are so many blood donation campaigns are organized. Sri Lankan people are more willing to donate blood. Actually, the donors are participating with this kind of event with a huge interest and only having the hope of helping someone when in a needed situation.

I have got a chance to participate blood donation event which is organized by our faculty. Since my childhood, I wanted to do this but I can’t find any opportunity. So, I got this chance. Doctors and nurses came and they have checked our health because they wanted to know about our health conditions before collecting blood from us. In that form, they were asked so many questions about our history of having some disease and also they measure our weight.

After that I donate my blood. As my first experience, I don’t know what will happen after donating blood. Some students who are donating blood are faint. After seeing this I got a little fear but I participated for this. At the end of the donation, I also feel that I’m going to faint. The nurse who near to me saw this and advise me to stay few minutes on the bed. After few minutes I feel better. I thought the reason is a sudden reduction of blood in my body. After that, I got a small refreshment.

Though I was faint, I feel very happy about what I have done. I could able to save someone’s life. So. I invite all of you who are not participated in donating blood on any day of your life, try to do this because you can save someone’s life in the future.