To honour the Arab Day for Blood Donation on 23 February, Egypt’s Health Ministry is launching a nationwide campaign for blood donation. The campaign, which runs till 15 March, will be conducted through blood donation centres in all Egypt, as well as through mobile donation units intended to be placed in university campuses. The aim, according to Afaf Ahmed of the national centre for blood donation, is to raise awareness of the dire need for blood, and to encourage some 110,000 donors to donate their blood.
Watani International
23 February 2016