Malawi’s Minister of Health Dr. Jean Kalilani has appealed to all the stakeholders in the country to go for blood donation. saying this will help to save lives of people languishing in different hospitals due to lack of blood. Speaking during the official launch of blood donation awareness week on Saturday at Masintha ground in […]
Parent and Child Health Initiative (PACHI)-Balaka Chapter in conjunction with Balaka District Hospital has intensified a community-to-community awareness campaign with an aim of educating people directly in their respective communities on the importance of donating blood. The initiative is also aimed at collecting enough blood to make sure that Balaka District Hospital has some in […]
Blood is life, but the sight of it brings shivers to most people. Donating it becomes even harder, especially for communities in Ntchisi. Ntchisi District Hospital’s blood bank goes dry every time despite the raising of alarm for the liquid’s shortage. No one comes forth willingly to donate. Jesse Mwansambo, 42, whose life was saved […]
The Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) says it will conduct a study to establish why many people are still not forthcoming to donate blood to the institution. This was disclosed to members of the media on Wednesday ahead of the World Blood Donor Day this Saturday, June 14. MBTS Chief Executive Natasha Nsamala was of […]
Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) –the country’s main blood reservoir in times of emergency – is running out of the important body fluid, a development that has been blamed on the current secondary schools and institutions of higher learning summer holidays. Dr. Brighton Mbaya of MBTS said “lives of patients, especially those who survive road […]
Rocked by the current harsh economic downturn, people in the populous lake shore resort district of Mangochi are now selling their own blood for survival, it has been learnt. Thousands of people in the district, propelled by the ongoing economic hardships in the impoverished southern African state, are selling blood to vendors in order to make […]