Give children hope for tomorrow.

Everyone can give the gift of life.

Six years old Lena Chetverikova died from leukemia because she didn’t get 10 percent of blood she needed. Today in hospitals more than 70 children are waiting for their recover. But only few of them will survive as there is no enough donated blood.
In comparison with previous years the number of donors dramatically decreased. The doctor of the Republican Center of blood, Gulnar Rakhmetova, said, “Usually there are 80 people per day donating blood. It is not enough; we need at least 150 people. In Soviet time everyone was ready to give his blood to sick people at anytime. Today people became more rigid.”
During the Soviet Time blood donation was obligatory. The donors had privileges, such as paid holidays and discounts. Now the system changed. According to the Law of donor service gratuitous donors will get only 250 tenge.
Also Rakhmetova said they visit different organizations asking for help every week. And the most popular answers are people themselves have not enough blood or the blood center paid not enough money.
The honored donor, Alexander Shilo, said, “I’ve given my blood 170 times. It is impossible to agitate people to become a donor. Until a person does not face the trouble himself he will never understand that. People became cruel. Everyone lives in his own world. Everyone worries only about his health and his wallet. No one cares about someone’s health.”
A person who gives blood restores his loss after two months. Moreover giving some blood renews his organism. However not everyone’s blood is suitable, such as people who have gone through syphilis, tuberculosis and all types of hepatitis illnesses.
The most rare blood in medicine is IV rhesus- negative.
Rakhmetova said commercial organizations are hard to donate blood; where as the working class does it more willingly. Students also, have different attitudes to donation. Some universities are active, in others there are zero donators.
The assistant of the doctor, Gulnar Kassymova, said, “It is safe to give a blood. A person, giving blood, gives a life to a sick person. This is the noble thing he or she does in life.”
Any volunteers, who want to help children, can donate their blood in the Republican Center of Blood, which is located in Almaty, 1 Utepova Street, tel.: 8(3272)494604, OR, in the Bank of blood, Almaty, 146 Al-Farabi Street, tel.: 8(3272)992834.