Health

Health

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness.

Blood plays an important role in supplying oxygen and nutrients to tissues transporting hormones and other signals throughout the Blood is considered a type of connective tissue because it is made in the bones.

While the need for blood is universal, access to it is sadly not .There is a major imbalance in access to safe blood between developing and industrialized countries. Only about 40 percent of the blood collected each year is donated in developing countries There is no substitute for human blood and very few of eligible population donate blood each year.

1)You cannot get any infectious disease by donating blood

2)One in every seven people entering hospital need blood

3)One pint of blood can save up to three lives.

4)Any person between the age of 17 and 56 weighing above 50kgs can donate blood for every 56 days or two months.

The Ministry of Health stated, Blood is needed regularly for patients with diseases such as Thalassemia and Haemophilia, also for the treatment of injuries after an accident, major surgeries, anaemia etc.

Thus, blood donation can save lives. We educate students about blood donation and motivate them to become a blood donor after they reach the suitable age, they also help in creating awareness and ask others to donate blood.

What i do ?

After seeing the problems faced by the orphans and the poor I realized that more efforts should be put into this .And later took courage to start AIRA from the experience gained from SOPH. So that I will be able to make a better society .