Inspired by a worrying statistic about the paucity of blood donors in Zimbabwe, we recently sent out this text message to our subscribers:

Kubatana! There are only 50,000 blood donors in Zimbabwe. Let’s change that! Celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday and become a donor. Help your family and others.

This prompted a number of responses from our subscribers, some of which we share below:

• I’m one of the 50,000 & I’ve donated 26 units so far.
• I donate blood but I cannot afford it when need arises its so expensive its really disappointing.
• I am among that number. Thanks for the msg.
• I’m donating every 3mths at Kadoma post.
• I don’t see the point coz we donate the blood for free & patients are charged exorbitant prices for that same blood.

Visit the National Blood Service Zimbabwe website for more information – and to find out where you can donate.  Whilst you’re at it, share your feedback with NBSZ about donating blood, and about the expense of accessing blood when one needs it.

This entry was posted on June 18th, 2012 at 3:30 pm by Amanda Atwood and is filed under Reflections, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.