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More locals donating blood yet still insufficient to get demand fully met

By Cai Wenjun | June 15, 2016, Wednesday | Online Edition

THE blood donation rate for every 1,000 people in the city was 13.9 last year, 0.1 percentage points higher than the previous year.

Though the figure was higher than the average level of 10 in the nation, the city has much work to do to meet World Health Organization’s standard of 20, local health officials said yesterday, the World Blood Donor Day.

Last year, over 300,000 people donated 85,400 liters of blood, which still failed to fully meet the clinical demand. Shanghai needs at least 92,000 liters of blood every year and the demand keeps rising due to increase number of elderly people and large number of patients from other provinces for better health capability in Shanghai.

Study found male covered over 70 percent of donors last year and 73 percent of donors gave blood for the first time. Only 15 percent donated blood for the second time and 11 percent for the third or more times.

Among the donors, over 60 percent were younger than 30 years old.

“From the study, we gladly found young people have become the major source of donors, while we lack of repeated donors,” said Zou Zhengrong, director of Shanghai Blood Administration Office. “Concerning to young people’s habits, we will adopt more Internet-based promotion activities like public WeChat account to recruit donors and help them become repeated and even regular donors.”

He said clinical demand is met if blood donors cover 1 to 3 percent of total population. In developed countries, 50 and even 80 percent of blood comes from regular donors. Regular donors have more understanding on blood safety and health protection and can better ensure blood safety from the very beginning.

Having regular and fixed donors also allows the authority to contact them in case of  emergency and a temporary storage shortage.

Shanghai usually suffers a donor downfall during Spring Festival holiday and summer, when less people go to donor blood. The city have to solve the shortage by urging hospitals to improve blood management, organize donations by groups and expand blood collecting sites.

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