Blood is the fluid of life. It is also the fluid of growth and the fluid of health. The body’s organs get the oxygen and nutrients they need in blood in order to survive. That’s why humans can’t live without blood. Without enough blood, we will be weaken and die; we couldn’t keep warm or cool off but with the help of blood we can also fight diseases or illnesses, or get free of our own waste products. Almost all of us are expecting that blood is always there for us. But sooner or later there is a possibility that all of us will face a time of great weakness in which we will need blood. And that time is not always we expect.

Now a days, many community services were formed in order to help those people who need blood. In the developed world, blood donations arise in order to help those people who are in need of blood and there are also donors that can also have their blood drawn for their own future use. When we say blood donations, it is when a healthy person voluntarily has blood drawn. The person who gives their blood for a community supply is called the blood donors. Mostly blood donors are unpaid volunteers who give as an act of charity. Some donors give blood only when family and friends need transfusions.

Potential donors are evaluated whether their blood is unsafe to use or not because blood transfusion may cause transmitted disease like HIV or Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis which includes the hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. There is also a physical examination to those potential donors to make sure that the donation is not harmful to their health before the donation is done. In an examination, they also check whether you have a tattoo or not, if you have, you cannot make a donation because having a tattoo, your blood is considered as unclean. One thing that the donors should bear into their mind that “when they give blood, they save life”.

Aiza Artillero