Donate blood to reduce your chances of heart attack
14th June is Blood Donors day. One should donate blood at least once every year which can be your or somebody else's date of birth or the blood donors day, said Padmashir & Dr. B.C. Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal President Heart Care Foundation of India.
- (1888PressRelease) June 14, 2011 - One should donate blood at least once every year which can be your or somebody else's date of birth, said Padmashri & Dr. B.C. Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal President Heart Care Foundation of India and Dr N K Bhatia Transfusion Specialist.
Dr. Aggarwal said that in our Shastras also it is clearly written that donating blood is the bigger spiritual charity one can do in his life.
In today's era, by donating blood one can save three lives. Dr. Aggarwal further said that regular blood donation also reduces chances of future heart attack. According to a western study, regular donation of the blood decreases excess of iron, reduces free radicals in the body and prevents chances of future heart attack.
While donating blood, one also gets an opportunity to get free blood checkup done which includes Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Malaria, Hemoglobin Test, HIV test etc.
Another benefit of regular blood donation is that a person gets entitled for a free blood donation card against which one can take blood whenever there is a need. It is like paying an LIC premium but here it is used for availability of future blood.
Out of 92 million blood donors in the world 45% are under the age of 25 years and 40% of all donors are female.
Dr. Aggarwal further said that paid blood donations are banned in India. He further said that replacement blood donation is also not safe as many paid blood donors are brought in the disguise of replacement donors and relations who donate for replacement may not disclose their high risk behavior.
Dr. Aggarwal said that as per World Health Organisation, every country should have a target of achieving 100% blood donation by the year 2020.
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