Phuket blood donation drive launched

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Phuket blood donation drive launched
Wiparatana Nathalang



PHUKET: -- The Phuket Regional Blood Centre (PRBC) and the Thai Red Cross today (June 2) launched a drive for blood donations in concert with World Blood Donor Day, which is on June 14.

Pornthip Rattajak, PRBC Director, explained, “World Blood Donor Day commemorates the birthday of Dr Karl Landsteiner. He was an Austrian who received the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his discovery of the A, B and O blood groups.

The slogan this year is “Safe Blood for Saving Mothers”, the aim being to support mothers in danger of losing their lives during delivery.

Donors will each receive a T-shirt will be given and an official photograph of them giving blood.

In addition, anyone pledging to donate their eyes or other organs after death will receive a free lunch at the PRBC (see map) on June 13, from 8:30am to 4:30 pm.

The dates, times and venues of blood donations are as follows:

June 3 9am-2pm Kan-Krao Hall, Satree Phuket School, Phuket Town

June 4 9am-2pm Muang Thalang School, Thalang

June 6 9am-3pm Phuket Vocational College, Phuket Town

June 11 1-4pm Phuket International Hospital, bypass road

June 13 8:30am-4:30pm PRBC, Rattanakosin 200 Pi Rd, Phuket Town

June 17 10am-3pm Outrigger Laguna Beach Resort, Cherng Talay

June 18 10am-3pm Duangjitt Resort Phuket, Patong

June 20 10am-3pm 3rd floor, Phuket International Airport passenger terminal

June 24 1-4pm Siam Makro, Phuket Town

June 26 Midday-6pm Central Festival Phuket, Phuket Town

June 27 1-4pm Patong Hospital

June 30 Midday-4pm Phuket Fantasea, Kamala

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-blood-donation-drive-launched-46615.php


-- Phuket News 2014-06-03

[chooka]

I tried to donate blood in Thailand but they wouldn't take it. This was at the Chiangmai Ram Hospital and I was told that a farang needs a full medical and a report from a doctor back home.

I know my blood is clean and thought fair enough if you don't want it I'll keep it. Maybe there is not a demand for B neg in Thailand.

[Jonmarleesco]

I tried to donate blood in Thailand but they wouldn't take it. This was at the Chiangmai Ram Hospital and I was told that a farang needs a full medical and a report from a doctor back home.

I know my blood is clean and thought fair enough if you don't want it I'll keep it. Maybe there is not a demand for B neg in Thailand.

Fascinating. A 'farang' needs a full medical. So if I were in need of blood, the hospital would, presumably, be happy with giving me Thai blood of uncertain provenance, but not western-sourced blood, unless it had been certified. I don't object to an assurance that I'm receiving untanted blood, but I do object to the assumption that the Thai donor's blood will be healthier than the non-Thai's, an assumption that is almost certainly warped.

And it seems they aren't happy with anyone who spent more than six months in the UK, between 1983 and 1996, presumably due to the BSE issue that was,endemic during in that period, and not to SARS, as claimed by an individual at Samitivej; subsequent long term residence in Thailand seems not to be taken into account. They also seem to ignore the many diseases that have blighted Thailand, and Thais, and the abysmally poor attention given to hygiene; that courtesy of personal observation.