Blood Donation

Our blood donor club again donated a bottle of AB blood on Myanmar's Independence day, January 4th. The patient was from Asia Royal Hospital. He was from Aung Pan, Shan State, and 50 years old. He needed blood transfusion after his operation for the heart. A total of 13 blood bottles was transfused before.

Yesterday around 8:30 p.m., the patient guardian from the special ward called the club to help in donation of an AB blood bottle. It was the second time because they have informed a week before. Since the club had a donor instant, we prepared for the registration. After that, we left to Asia Royal around 9:00 p.m. for the blood test.

Upon arrival to the hospital, a doctor check the blood pressure and then we proceeded at blood laboratory. We had to wait for a while because a monk was tested for the blood. They stored the blood to test. We sent the donor back to home at about 11:00 p.m. because the result would only be out the next day.

After the blood result was out on 9:00 a.m. in the morning, they called to come and donate blood afternoon. We brought the donor to the hospital and waited for the transfusion. The donation was started at 12:00 pm and ended at 1:00 pm. We sent back the donor after all.

Blood Donation

The blood donor club donated a bottle of blood type A at January 3rd of 2008. The patient lives in Gandamar Street, Sanchaung Township. She is 48-years-old woman. She had been treated at South Okkalapa Women and children Hospital (Catholic Hospital) in order to cure a uterus disease.

Since January 2nd 8:00 a.m., the hospital indicated the patient guardian to the club, and they contacted us for the donation of blood.

They requested us to come at January 3rd because the patient was arranged for the operation on that day. Therefore, we brought the donor to the hospital on 3rd January, 8:00 a.m. After the medical check up, the donation began at 9:38 a.m. The club sent off the donor after the donation

Blood Donation

Our Raven BDC donated a bottle of type B blood at December 31st 2007 to a patient who was waiting for operation for her ectopic pregnancy. She lives in 2nd Street of 18th Quarter, at South Dagon Township. Raven BDC donated 2 bottles of B type blood at December 30th. The guardians of the patient asked for 2 more bottles the next day.

There wasn't enough members at the new branch of Raven BDC in East District of Yangon. So, they had to ask for help to the West District BDC to send volunteer donors that has B type blood at 9:30 AM on December 31st. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough donors at the West District club either (some were at work, some were still under due to donate again, etc.). At last, two donors were found and Raven BDC & donors went out to the Hospital and got to the South Okkalapa Women and Children Hospital by 2 PM. When we tested the blood pressure of the donors before the transfusion, one didn't have high enough blood pressure. Therefore, he wasn't able to donate. The other one and the member waited to test for contageous diseases at the blood bank for more than half-an-hour. After the test, Raven BDC treated the donor with lunch since the donor hadn't eaten anything. After the lunch, we got back to the hospital to find the test results. There, we started the transfusion process. At 3:30 PM, the transfusion was done so, the doctor treated the donors with drinks. The guardians of the patient also gave us cold drink bottles as presents. After that, Raven BDC members sent the donor home and got back to our domain by 4 PM in the evening. This is the report of the last donation done for the year 2007.

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Blood Donation

Our Raven BDC donated three bottles of A type blood on November 26th 2007. The patient was a 10-years-old boy from Toon Tay Township in Pyaw Bwe, who was admitted at the Children's Hospital with Dengue fever. The boy's father called the head of Town council of Toon Tay to help him find a blood donor for his son. The head of town council looked for one in Toon Tay. However the blood type was one barrier that they couldn't jump over. The head of town council had seen us donating blood, so he called us to help donate three bottles of A type blood for the boy. It was 7 PM when he called.

Therefore, Raven BDC searched for the suitable donors and went to the Children's Hospital at 7:45 PM. We got there at 8 PM and looked for the child there. Those attending the child patient, the grandfather and grandmother of the boy, were quite amazed and overjoyed by our arrival, and they didn't know that the donors were asked for by their town council head from Toon Tay.

As usual, the blood bank at the Children's hospital was closed already. So, the doctors from another ward who were in-duty that day at night measured the blood pressure and took the blood sample. This was done by 8:15 PM. We waited at the hospital for the results after that and the results came out at 8:45 PM. After we got the result, we had to wait for the doctors to finish attending the patients at their assigned ward. At 9:15 PM, the blood transfusion started and it ended around 9:30 PM. We sent the donors back home after that. We gave out our Raven BDC pamphlets to make sure that the doctors would be able to contact us when in immediate need of blood arises at the hospital.

Blood Donation

Raven BDC donated a bottle of type A blood at November 23rd 2007. The patient was a 82-years-old male from Asia Royal Hospital. He lives in Pazuntaung Township, Yangon. He was suffering from Liver cirrhosis. We also donated one O type blood at October for this same patient.

At November 22nd, the guardian asked for a bottle of O type blood in the morning asking for the donor to be present at Asia Royal Hospital for blood testings. So, we looked for a donor and went to the hospital with a member at 7:30 PM. A sample of blood was taken out to test for blood type and diseases. As usual, the blood results were to be out the next day. Therefore, we sent the donor home that day.

On November 23rd 12:00 noon, the results were out already. We took the donor to Asia Royal hospital and had to wait there for sometime for whatever the reason that we didn't know. We felt as if we were ignored intentionally for no reason. The blood donor should be acknowledged as an important person since he/she's is not a patient, and plays a critical role in saving the patient's life. Finally at 2 PM, the blood transfusion started. It ended at 2:30 PM. Raven BDC sent the donor home and we reached our domain by 3 PM.

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.

Blood Donation

We donated a bottle of A type blood at November 9th, 2007. The blood bank called Raven BDC to donate a bottle of AB type blood at around 11 AM. The patient was a 21-years-old lady who lives at Mahar Myine in North Dagon Township. She was suffering from Dengue fever and was admitted to Yangon General Hospital. A decade ago, Dengue fever was regarded as children's disease but now, it has been seen in many adults lately.

After we got the call, we contacted the AB type blood donor. Since AB type blood is naturally very rare, we had to grab the donor at his snack bar. At 12 noon, Raven BDC and the donor got to the blood bank. We took to necessary forms and did the tests. The blood sample was taken out at 1 PM to test for diseases tranferrable by blood. After the results were out, the transfusion started at 2 PM in the afternoon and ended at 2:30 PM. Raven BDC members sent the donor back home and all of us got back to the Raven domain at 3 PM.