Thread by @healthertainer

I’ll never forget the day i and my team where up all night, not only posting all over social media but making calls to find blood donors for a patient who needed urgent transfusion.

How we ended saving 2 lives instead of one😭😭

Thread #bloodOnTheLine

“Kilishi, oya oya, we just got a call. One woman in Specialist hospital needs blood o, she was brought in pale. She has No money. No blood match in the blood bank. No one to assist.

(Erm, my mentor calls me Kilishi, Kilishi for Kelechi, lol) #BloodOnTheLine

Sleep had cleared from my eyes sef as we drove the hospital. we were already posting on onlin. calls... looking for a match upandan. We got to the hospital and the sight of the patient was so heart wrenching. She was frail and white as paper #BloodOnTheLine

It was about 12:30am. We didn't know how but we knew help will come. So we started the procedure. Gave a go ahead to the hospital to take samples for grouping and cross matching while we waited #BloodOnTheLine

I would have loved to donate but i am in Sokoto”.

“OMG, i am a match but i am sick right now i can’t donate.”

“I am a match, how much will you pay.”

We got lots of responses like this until we got 3 positive ones.

#BloodOnTheLine

My madam drove to one location to pick one of them. I took a bike to go and pick another person(opposite direction). One of them said he could find his way to us! Thank God

#BloodOnTheLine

Screenings tests were conducted on all three. Good-news, 2 were clean but unfortunately, the last person was not cleared to donate. He two blood infections that disqualified him.

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To cut the long story short, our patient started her blood transfusion that night. We were glad we didn’t lose her.

But we had another matter on our hands. The donor who just found that he had Hepatis B and HIV (Goodnews and/or bad news)
#BloodOnTheLine

Let me digress a bit... still related.

How do you feel when you are down and broken and you RECEIVE and act of kindness from someone?

Compare it to how you feel when you GIVE it? The feeling that you saved another?Which feels betters?

#bloodontheline

I don’t know about you. But when i give, the feeling is bliss! Better than when i receive, i dare say!

It does more for me than it does to the other, i dare say!

Now, imagine when you give blood to save a life! Wow! Amazing feeling #BloodOnTheLine

Not only is there joy in giving, there is healing in giving.

This is why we are lending our voices today being #WorldBloodDonorDay2018 to say #GiveBloodSaveLives!

#BloodOnTheLine

Have you donated blood before?

If you have other reasons, kindly comment instead
#bloodontheline

You might be asking? What’s my own self? Why must i donate blood?

Donate blood because your blood will save another life

#bloodontheline #WorldBloodDonorday

You are healthy! You are breathing. Be thankful oooooo

In addition to free oxygen, There are some people who need regular blood transfusions just to stay alive 😭

Please Donate blood to help sustain their lives #BloodOnTheLine #WorldBloodDonorDay

Do you know how many women have died in the labor room because of blood loss?

Oh, most times, baby dies too😭😭

If we had steady supply in the blood banks, many lives would have been saved.

#BloodOnTheLine #WorldBloodDonorDay

So you have been singing “soli soli soli... solidarity for ever, 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶” and you have never donated blood 🙈🙈🙈

Blood donation is an act of solidarity, kindness, empathy, altruism, a true patriotic Nigerian!

#WorldBloodDonorDay #BloodOnTheLine

Give your blood to save another life.
Give it wholeheartedly
GIVE IT FOR FREE!

#Bloodontheline

Do you know that when you give blood you improve your own health too? It improves your heart functions and promotes better immunity?

Well, now you know! #BloodOnTheLine

Do you know that regular blood donation encourages regular health screening? For every time you give blood, you are screen for HIV,Hepatitis B & C, syphilis, Malaria, etc

Talk about killing 2 birds with one stone. Be a regular blood donor!

#BloodOnTheLine

Most of the time, we lose lives due to non availability of blood in the Blood Banks. This is why we should donate blood regularly so we don’t run out of supply!

Who know who might need it tomorrow? Who knows? Maybe you🤕 #BloodOnTheLine

“God forbid, it is not my portion” until you or someone close to you us in urgent need for blood and the only match is 6hours away”

GOD FORBID!!

This is why we need more #BloodOnTheLine

Why should you donate blood?

Simple:

There is joy in giving.
There is healing in giving
#BloodOnTheLine

Be a regular donor!

When you donate blood, you gift life!

It may be someone you don’t! Who knows, it may be someone close to you will benefit!

#BloodOnTheLine

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