NBSZ launches festive season blood campaign

Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Senior Health Reporter

The National Blood Services Zimbabwe has launched a blood the festive season blood collection campaign with the aim to collect more than 13 000 units of blood by the end of January 2024.

The campaign is one of the measures put in place to ensure that the country does not run out of blood supplies during the festive season when demand is high because of increase in accidents.

National Blood Service Zimbabwe Blood Supply Executive Mr Menard Mutenherwa (left) on a tour of NBSZ laboratory with journalists during a festive season blood campaign collection launch in Harare today :-Picture by Memory Mangombe.

Speaking during the launch, NBSZ Chief Executive Officer Ms Lucy Marowa said the blood campaign would ensure the country does not run out of blood during the festive season.

“We call upon the population of Zimbabwe to come together to donate blood in preparation for the festive season campaign. Year in year out, we always do this blood donor campaign because statistics show that during the festive season, the need for blood is heightened due to a lot of accidents that happen not only on the roads but even in our households. As NBSZ it is our responsibility to make sure that the nation has adequate stocks of blood during this season,” she said.