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Ocho Rios Police Youth Club members give blood
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
OCHO RIOS, St Ann -- Several members of the Ocho Rios Police Youth Club last week made donations to the blood bank in St Ann's Bay.
The youth club members, several of them males, were responding to an appeal from the National Blood Transfusion Service (blood bank) for individuals to voluntarily donate blood to shore up the nation's blood supply.
Club leader Corporal Errol Craig said other members would have also promised to donate blood in coming weeks.
"We heard an appeal on the radio that the blood bank was in dire need of blood. So, as a club, we decided to embark on some outreach programmes and one of them was to donate blood to the hospital," Craig said.
Madge Braham, a nurse at the blood bank at the St Ann's Bay hospital, had high praises for the group and wants more people, especially young adults, to consider donating blood.
"I was very happy to see that they took that initiative and we are encouraging other groups in the area to come in, see us and plan so that we can get the younger people especially, age 17 and up, to come in and donate blood," said Braham.
She said that continued violent attacks and injuries associated to road crashes have added pressure on the unit, which also has to provide blood to other patients admitted at that hospital.
"We always need blood; St Ann's Bay is one of the areas where activities heighten at times with motor vehicle accidents... and we are right in the centre of everything so sometimes we really run very short," Nurse Braham added.
She said while donations have increased since last November, most of the blood collected since has been replacement for people whose relatives have made donations.
"One of the things that we want to say to our people is hold strain; the violence is not going to help the health service and then ultimately we won't be able to help you," said Braham.
 
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