NBTS Sensitizes through Sports

Some 300 people partook in a fitness walk organised by the National Blood Transfusion Service, NBTS on 8 June 2024. This was in prelude to the commemoration of World Blood Donor Day celebrated each year on 14 June. The theme for this year is “20 years of celebrating giving, thank you blood donors”. Led by Maina Emmanuel Djoulde, Deputy General Manager of the NBTS, participants at the walk drawn from blood donor associations like Safe Blood, Club 25, Nolfowop, Life line, SOS don de sang, civil society organisations, hospital facilities amongst others  covered over 20 kilometres with the starting point being the Ministry of Public Health.  Along the itinerary, informative flyers were distributed to men, women and youths, encouraging them to give blood. The fitness walk also gave the NBTS the opportunity to vent on its missions, topmost of which is making available quality blood products nationwide.