A Canadian in Cambodia discovers progressive blood-donation policies
Today I saved a boy’s life. At least, that’s what I was told after I left the blood bank’s transfusion room. I laughed, thinking it was a nice metaphorical pat on the back after watching 350 millilitres of blood slowly drain from my body.
But then I found out that I literally had saved a young boy’s life – simply because I decided to donate in the right place at the right time.
One of my colleagues had asked me to join her at a local blood bank, run by an Australian charity that channels blood specifically to children with thalassemia, a disorder that creates fatal iron levels in the blood and causes infection, bone deformation, enlargement of the spleen, anemia and heart problems.
Raymond Hyma
Daily Extra
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