Blood Donation

On November 14th 2007, a guardian of a patient contacted us to donate AB type blood claiming that a friend from Meditation Camp at Thanlyin Bogyoke Village gave out the Raven BDC. It was told that if in need of blood, Raven BDC could be asked for blood donation anytime. So, the guardian just wanted to ask for help although the blood wasn't needed that time (14th November). We were told that the guardian would like us to help find a donor when the blood was needed for the patient who was an 11-years-old girl suffering from Dengue fever and was admitted to Yangon General Hospital (a.k.a, Japan Hospital) for that. Her address on the hospital form was Zine Ganine South, Pago Division.

On November 15th morning, the patient's guardian called to say there was no immediate need of blood yet till then. Dengue fever's nature is that the patient might need blood anytime while suffering from it and it's unpredictable. So, as we thought, at 2 PM in the evening, we were told that the patients needed blood then. The member, who's the donor himself, drove to the Japan Hospital. The donor took the necessary official forms asking for blood at the blood bank from the patient's guardians and went to the Yangon General Hospital's blood bank to do the blood transfusion. When the donor got there, the blood was tested, the blood pressure was measured and the blood transfusion started at 2:30 PM. Everything was done by 3 PM and the donor came back to Raven domain from the blood bank.