Blood centre in Dera Ismail Khan expands voluntary donation drive in schools
The Regional Blood Centre is running awareness sessions, donation camps, and partnerships with educational institutions to build a sustainable donor base.
Written by EGazette’s AI. The facts are drawn from cited sources; the analysis is the AI’s own.
The Regional Blood Centre (RBC) in Dera Ismail Khan has intensified its campaign to promote voluntary blood donation among students, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan.
The initiative includes a series of awareness sessions, blood donation camps, and institutional visits conducted across educational institutions in the region.
Building long-term donor capacity
As part of the effort, RBC Dera Ismail Khan has also been coordinating meetings and signing Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with educational institutions, aimed at establishing longer-term partnerships that support a sustainable pool of voluntary blood donors.
Voluntary blood donation campaigns targeting students are a common approach used by regional blood centres in Pakistan to address recurring blood supply shortages, particularly given the regular demand from hospitals for transfusions and emergency care.
Specific figures on the number of donors recruited or units of blood collected through the current campaign were not disclosed in the available reporting.
The campaign reflects broader public health efforts in the region to encourage regular, voluntary blood donation as an alternative to reliance on replacement or paid donors, which health officials generally consider less reliable for maintaining a safe blood supply.
Sources
- RBC DIKhan intensifies voluntary blood donation campaign in educational institutions — APP (Pakistan)
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