Do you know?

Do you know?
How Blood Saves Lives
Blood contains many life-saving components which can help to treat different illnesses and injuries.
Within six hours after a unit of blood is donated, it can be processed into blood products to treat a variety of medical conditions.

Whole Blood
Whole blood is used to restore blood volume whenever large amounts of blood have been lost eg. as a result of accidents, injury or during surgery and childbirth.

Red Blood Cells
Red cells carry vital oxygen through the body. It is used by patients who suffer a loss of blood due to trauma, surgery.

Plasma
Plasma is used mainly in emergency treatment of shock or in cases of severe burns.

Platelets
Platelets play an essential part in blood clotting, for instance, to treat patients with severe haemorrhage or leukaemia. Often one patient will need platelets from 10 donors or more, in a short time. These cells have a life span of only 5 days. Hence, the blood bank stock need to be constantly renewed.

Cryoprecipitate
Cryoprecipitate contains the clotting substance which is absent in patients who suffer from haemophilia.

Blood is vital to life and for many people, blood donors are their life-line. At least 200 blood donations are needed each day in Singapore to meet the needs of patients. Your blood donation could help save the life of an accident victim, a patient with kidney failure, liver disease or burns, a newborn baby, someone undergoing major surgery or a patient living with cancer or severe anaemia.

Modern processing techniques mean that a single blood donation, when separated into its components, can help at least three different patients.

Blood means life. Give life today.
There's someone who needs the gift of your blood now.
Pls donate at:

Bloodbank@HSA Centre for Transfusion Medicine

Health Sciences Authority

11 Outram Road

(Opposite Outram MRT)

Singapore 169078

Tel: 6220 0183

With courtesy, from HSA