Blood donation is one of the beneficial concept connected with the science of surgical medicine. Like all the inventions borrowed from the West this too is an invention of the scientifically advanced Western countries. Human blood is divided into four groups viz; A,B,0 and AB. This blood is stored and preserved in blood banks for a week or so as it is, and later is preserved in the plasma form.
When another human being is struggling for life as cause of loss of blood, in an accident, war ordinary emergency, the blood bank will examine his blood and supply a blood from its storage which corresponds with the blood group of that person. In this way, hundreds of lives have been saved in our country. Among the blood groups, O-positive group is the universal donor, and can be transferred in the blood stream of persons of any other group.
Donation of blood is a prime need of the country, and the Government itself has taken charge of the department. It requests all hale and healthy citizens in the country to donate blood. This done through publicity in the form of signboards, hoardings, etc., in front of hospitals, or through media advertisements.
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Of course, no cash incentive or any other attractive gifts are given to the people who volunteer for blood, as is done to encourage people who adopt family planning. The Government leaves it to the will and pleasure of the donors to donate their blood voluntarily and with the noble motive of helping fellow citizens to survive.
It is purely obligatory on the part of every citizen who is not suffering from anaemia, or whose blood is free from any virus infection or any other ill conditions to donate blood. We can come across people among us who donate blood periodically.
Normally a volunteer should be conscious to have an interval of 180 days between one donation and another. Blood donation is a noble gesture. It enhances the sense of pride in a person and it develops and altruistic attitude among the mankind.