World Blood Donor Day 2022: Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Join the effort and save lives
Every year 14th June is marked as World Blood donor Day, celebrated around the world to raise awareness about safe blood and blood products and also to thank blood donors for their life-saving blood donations. World Blood Donor Day was established in 2004 and it is one of the eight official global health campaigns of the World Health Organization.
Every year Blood and blood transfusion products help and save millions of lives. It can help patients living longer and with a higher quality of life with life-threatening conditions, and it supports complex medical and surgical procedures. Blood transfusion also plays an essential role in saving a life during maternal and perinatal care. For the survival access of safe blood is universal, for both treatment and emergencies safe blood plays an important role.
Theme of World Blood Donor Day 2022
This year the campaign theme of World Blood Donor Day 2022 is – Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Join the effort and save lives
“Donating blood is an act of solidarity,” says the World Blood Donor Day tagline for 2022. “Join the effort and save lives” is a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of volunteer blood donations in saving lives and strengthening community bonds.
The specific goals of this year’s campaign are to: thank blood donors worldwide and raise public awareness of the need of regular, unpaid blood donation; emphasize the importance during the year blood donation in order to maintain enough supplies and ensure universal and prompt access to safe blood transfusion; and acknowledge and promote the values of voluntary, unpaid blood donation in building community solidarity and social cohesion.
Also, to enhance awareness of the need for increased government investment in building a sustainable and robust national blood system, and boost volunteer non-remunerated blood donor collecting.
For this year’s campaign, countries around the world are encouraged to distribute stories of people whose lives have been saved through blood donation to various media outlets as a way of motivating regular blood donors to continue giving blood, as well as motivating people in good health who have never given blood to do so.
Blood is also vital for the treatment of wounded people in all kinds of emergencies (natural disasters, accidents, armed conflicts, etc.) and has a vital, life-saving role in maternal and neonatal care.
Donor appreciation ceremonies, social media campaigns, special media broadcasts, social media updates featuring individual ’s blood donors with the slogan, conferences and workshops, musical and artistic occurrences to thank blood donors and celebrate solidarity, and colouring iconic monuments red are some of the other activities that could help promote the slogan of this year’s World Blood Donor Day.
Why World Blood Donor Day is Important?
Most of the countries do not have an adequate supply of safe blood, and it is quite challenging to ensure that there is enough and clean blood. The purpose of the World Blood Donor Day is to raise awareness about the value of blood donation and also to thank the many people who are making strides in donating their blood to save others.
Note:- WHO will run a global virtual event this year because of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. They will share more details in the weeks ahead.
Swikriti Dandotia
It is such a good cause to promote. What a nice initiative. Keep the good work going. These campaigns should be followed more vigorously.