In a Kapihan forum organized by the Department of Health , Dr. Graham Harrison of the World Health Organization’s Health Systems Team stressed that the need for blood is universal, but not everyone has access to safe blood and blood products.
DOH National Voluntary Blood Services Program Manager Marites Estrella said a potential volunteer blood donor should be a healthy individual aged 18 to 65; has a pulse rate between 60 to 100 beats per minute; should be at least 50 kilograms; has blood pressure between 90 to 160 and 60 to 100 ; and hemoglobin of at least 125 g/L.
He added that over the recent days, the PBC has recorded more than 600 blood donors thus they currently have plenty of blood supply at the moment.
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