Kyabazinga Appeals To Ugandans To Donate Blood

By Charles Kakamwa THE Kyabazinga of Busoga, Henry Wako Muloki, has urged Ugandans to offer voluntary services like donating blood to save people’s lives. He said many people had lost their lives due to lack of blood in many hospitals. Muloki was speaking at the launching of the Uganda Red Cross regional offices and blood collection centre on Oboja road in Jinja town recently. He said he would not be alive if people did not donate blood. “I have undergone a number of operations in which I lost a lot of blood but because there was blood in hospitals, I survived death,” he said. Muloki said the Kyabazinga institution would spearhead the blood donation campaign by sensitising the masses on the importance of donating blood through the mass media. He hailed the Uganda Red Cross for opening regional centres, saying it would increase awareness and bring services nearer to the people.Dr Dorothy Kyeyune, the director of Uganda Blood transfusion services, said shortage of blood in hospitals forced people to pay others to give blood to their patients.Ends