webfact Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Picture: Daily News Daily News reported that the director of the Red Cross National Blood Center is calling on healthy people to donate blood amid a national shortage. The demand for blood is rising with more operations now being rescheduled - ops are up 50% since October. 6,500 units are required every day but the supply has only been 2,500 units. This means that patients with the need for operations face having to be cancelled. Plus there is always the need for blood for unforeseen events like accidents as well as regular transfusions. Dr Dutjai Chaiwanichsiri called for healthy people to be heroes and donate blood. You'll get a "Blood Hero" t-shirt while stocks last. Blood can be donated at blood centers in Bangkok and the provinces including Lopburi, Chonburi, Ratchaburi, Korat, Khon Kaen, Ubon, Nakhon Sawan, Phitsanulok, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Sri Thammarat (Thung Song), Songkhla and Phuket. Six hospitals in Bangkok also can take blood donations including the Police Hospital, Ramathibodi, Somdej Phra Pinklao and Bhumibol Adulyadej. There are also donation centers in shopping centers at The Mall branches in Ngam Wong Wan, Bang Khae, Bangkapi and at the Emporium in Sukhumvit. The drive to increase blood supplies is from now until December 31st. Health insurance plans that meet the long stay visa requirements -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2021-11-22 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackdd Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) If I need a blood transfusion can I pay them with the t-shirt? Edited November 22, 2021 by jackdd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyExpat57 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Is it still OK to donate if one has lain with an unclean woman? Asking for a friend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said: Is it still OK to donate if one has lain with an unclean woman? Asking for a friend. Might depend on what it was specifically.....here is a list... HIV-1, HIV-2, human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-I, HTLV-II, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, West Nile Virus (WNV), and T. pallidum (syphilis). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozimoron Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 I am excluded due to warfarin I believe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sanuk711 Posted November 22, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2021 16 minutes ago, ozimoron said: I am excluded due to warfarin I believe. Its that type of medication that put me in Khon Kaen Hospital last month ozimoron--- Lost a fair amount of blood and took 4 bags to replace. Nurse said I am lucky that I have a common blood type as all there stocks are so low. When you lay there watching it drip-drip back into you, you realize what nice people these donors are, yer a T shirt here--- just a cup of tea and a biscuit where I come from . Donors-they really are good people..................... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sheryl Posted November 22, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2021 There are many exclusions to donation several of which are medically unnecessary/make no sense. For example, no matter how healthy, you cannot donate blood if over age 70, and can donate between the ages of 55 - 69 only if you have previously donated blood in Thailand. In addition, those aged 65 - 69, even if already a regular donor, must under go special health screening (in practical terms at most locations will just be told "cannot" as staff will not want to bother). The above present a special problem for obtaining rare (in Thailand) blood types as often the available pool of donors are foreign expat retirees. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris.B Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 I noticed the following a while ago concerning Brits who were in the UK between 1980-1996. The Thai Red Cross Society Jo Smith If you have resided in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the UK Overseas Territories) during 1980-1996, refrain from donating blood. Due to an outbreak of mad cow disease. Or in the year 1980 - 1996, have been sick and received a blood transfusion in England. To refrain from donating blood permanently. https://www.facebook.com/ThaiRedCross/photos/a.119862691380736/4635560613144232/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymonddiaz Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Six years ago , I went to Ramathibodi to donate blood but they didn't want it because I was a foreigner. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tingtong Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Some countries give more than t-shirt. How the economy works. There are sufficient amount of poor ppl who could be motivated by 500+ thb. There is plenty private hospitals charging for everything, including in the bill the cotton bud with alcohol before an IV. Efficient market theory would dictate to meet somewhere halfway. The donate for free is far off that mark. No surprise there isn't a waiting line. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunLA Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Use to be a regular back in the homeland. Won't allow me over here @ 60+ yrs old. Mind boggling. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris.B Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Apparently, one of the conditions on giving blood is .... 16) You or your partner must not have “sexual deviation”. https://tastythailand.com/who-cannot-donate-blood-in-thailand-you-may-be-on-the-list-of-people-who-cannot/ This could rule a lot of ASEAN NOW members out. ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Raymonddiaz said: Six years ago , I went to Ramathibodi to donate blood but they didn't want it because I was a foreigner. Same thing happened to me a few years ago...we can only try. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 5 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said: Is it still OK to donate if one has lain with an unclean woman? Asking for a friend. If less than 72 hours preceding the donation no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Henry Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Will the anti vacs minority refuse a blood transfusion if the donor has been vaccinated.? The donated blood will carry the antibodies. With a 90% vacs target there will be very little blood available for the anti- vaccors. Are they ready to die for their misguided belief? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickudon Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 The blood donation system in Thailand is not fit for the purpose. I once went to give blood (used to donate in the UK), because one farang asked for donors for his Thai niece, after an accident. They wouldn't give her a blood transfusion unless someone donated blood first. I was 60, and hospital refused to accept me as a donor - the girl died. She probably would have died anyway, but the delay helped seal her fate. They should allow blood from anyone up to 65 at least (farang blood probably safer than many Thais), and a small non-financial incentive - a drink and a meal perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbko Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 7 hours ago, tingtong said: Some countries give more than t-shirt. How the economy works. There are sufficient amount of poor ppl who could be motivated by 500+ thb. There is plenty private hospitals charging for everything, including in the bill the cotton bud with alcohol before an IV. Efficient market theory would dictate to meet somewhere halfway. The donate for free is far off that mark. No surprise there isn't a waiting line. I remember donating in the USA and all I got was cookies and punch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJ2U Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 The Thai "Red Cross" actually turn around and resell the donated blood for a hefty profit. Same Red Cross that moved in and took 23% of the Moderna ordered by private hospitals and resold them. That's another murky story. The Thai Red Cross bares no resemblence to the NON-PROFIT Red Cross we know in Western Countries (or any country for that matter). Your better off donating to the hospital of your choice directly. The shirts probably made with prison labor anyways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbko Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 12 minutes ago, MrJ2U said: The Thai Red Cross bares no resemblence to the NON-PROFIT Red Cross we know in Western Countries (or any country for that matter). Are you sure about that? Give this article a read about what happens with donated blood in the US. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/why-does-donated-blood-cost-patients-money/65-5c37b0d0-e8d3-4096-bcf9-7e18c647a535 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropposurfer Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 I got my free tshirt n a free Band-Aid spot too???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvdf Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 On 11/22/2021 at 1:43 PM, HappyExpat57 said: Is it still OK to donate if one has lain with an unclean woman? Asking for a friend. As long as STD checks return a negative result. Advising your friend's friend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJ2U Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 17 hours ago, bbko said: Are you sure about that? Give this article a read about what happens with donated blood in the US. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/why-does-donated-blood-cost-patients-money/65-5c37b0d0-e8d3-4096-bcf9-7e18c647a535 Sure enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tingtong Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 On 11/22/2021 at 9:29 PM, bbko said: I remember donating in the USA and all I got was cookies and punch. And did you go back another time again and again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 I sold my blood when on the road in the 70s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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