Health • Created June 21, 2016 05:00

‘1.7 million units of blood needed for sick Nigerians’

The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria has said that the annual requirement of blood by sick Nigerians is 1.7 million units, but the country is only collecting 400,000 to 500,000 and the shortfall often results to preventable deaths. The Head of ABUTH’s Hematology and Blood Transfusion Department, Dr. AbdulAziz Hassan, made this known […]

‘1.7 million units of blood needed for sick Nigerians’
‘1.7 million units of blood needed for sick Nigerians’

The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria has said that the annual requirement of blood by sick Nigerians is 1.7 million units, but the country is only collecting 400,000 to 500,000 and the shortfall often results to preventable deaths.
The Head of ABUTH’s Hematology and Blood Transfusion Department, Dr. AbdulAziz Hassan, made this known during a ceremony to commemorate the World Blood Donor Day that took place at the hospital.
While lamenting the wide gap, Dr. Hassan urged Nigerians to make blood donation a habit, saying it can save millions of lives.

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