Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur, July 30 (PIA) –
With the theme “Save a Life, Share a Blood, Be a Blood Donor Today,” the local
government unit of Bayog in partnership with the Philippine National Red Cross
(PNRC) based in Pagadian City conducted a mass blood donation activity last
Thursday, July 26, 2012 at the Municipal
Health Center, this municipality.
The activity is a joint venture of PNRC, LGU of Bayog headed by Mayor Leonardo
Babasa, Jr. thru the Rural Health Unit and the Board of Directors of Timber Mines Multi-Purpose Cooperative
(TIMMULCO).
Almost a hundred residents voluntarily
came to the RHU for screening, but only 65 of them passed the screening and
were allowed to donate their precious blood.
Mayor Babasa have noticed that since there are still many
residents who are willing to donate their blood, the same activity will be conducted in the
municipality soon.
The Red Cross personnel were composed of
Dr, Mae Lyn Estrada, Red Cross Blood Bank physician as team leader; Delia
Autor, Sheen Kisten Alcibar, and Mae Ann Grace Sayson, RC MedTechs and RC First
Aiders Elgie Villabeto and Jenny Lingating.
In behalf of the PNRC, Dr. Estrada said,
they are happy and satisfied with the number of volunteers who came to share
their blood and thanked the LGU through the RHU personnel under Dr. Gretchen
Dubrico, who assisted and facilitated the activity. (BAG/PIO-Bayog/CAL/PIA9)