RISING TRENDS OF BLOOD DONATION AND TRANSFUSION IN PAKISTANI POPULATION

Objectives: Giving blood to help others and transfer of donated blood to other human being are safe methods. But awareness, faiths and stances are linked with these two medical terms and can affect the safety of procedures. The main idea of this research was to describe the awareness faiths and stances about giving and transferring of blood in the people of Pakistan. Methodology: This research was held at Mayo Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. Questions were prepared to check the faiths, behaviour and awareness for giving and transferring of blood in population. Results: Three hundred and thirty-five men and two hundred and seventy-four women were the participants of this study. More than sixty-five percent participants never donated blood. About eighty percent on non-donors were from fifteen years to thirty year of age. There was a belief in more eighty-eight percent participants that donation of the blood to the human being is not an unhealthy activity. Twenty percent participants had the view that they would reject the transferring of the blood or plasma if they were in a condition of danger because it would bring complicated diseases to them from other persons. There were some participants who believed that they would receive blood only from their relatives. They were forty-nine percent. Conclusion: The mistaken belief about the donation of the blood and its transfusion should be tackled by the education, ending up the false ideas about the hospitals and ignorance. This will motivate the donors to perform the noble deed. People should be awaked that several preventive measures are taken to handle the donation of blood and transferring of blood in the recipient. Keywords: faith, ignorance, behaviour, stance, donor, recipient, transfusion, donation