A non-governmental organisation, De Norsemen Kclub International (DNKI), Abuja Chapter, has urged Nigerians to donate blood in order to save lives.
Chairman of the NGO, Kolawole Otepola, gave the advice during the organisation’s visit to Wuse District Hospital where members freely donated blood to the hospital as part of activities to mark the 2024 World Blood Donor Day.
Otepola said the act of conducting humanitarian service to people who are truly in need is the mandate of the DNKI.
He said: “Blood is God-given; if you can reach out to others who don’t have, and cannot pay and donate freely from what we have been freely given, that is what the Holy book teaches us to do, and that’s why we are here”.
Otepola said the organisation had in the past donated blood to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Jabi; Maitama and Gwarinpa hospitals.
He urged Nigerians to maximise the opportunity of the Blood Donor Day to turn out and donate blood to save lives and help humanity.
Medical Director, Wuse District Hospital, Abuja, Dr Oluseyi Asaolu, said blood is life and that the act of donating it reduces the rate of death.
“Blood is very crucial to human life, everybody needs blood, when you make that intervention to donate blood, it becomes a saving moment for someone in need.”
One of the members of the organisation, Mr Ogbobe Mathew, said “Rendering humanitarian services to people in need is our culture and what we do every year.”
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