Blood Donation

The procedure is filling out a questionnaire thats highly confidential. Then you need to have your finger get a small teeny tiny prick to check your iron levels and from there you can then donate your 500 mls of blood.
You need to have eaten in the last 4 hours before donating, your iron needs to be sufficient and you need to weigh more than 50kgs.
You cannot donate when you:

don’t meet our basic donor criteria

haven’t eaten something three to four hours before giving blood

have any infection (even a cold!) – you need to be symptom-free for at least 7 days

are being treated with antibiotics – you must wait at least a week after finishing treatment

have had major surgery within the past six months

are expecting to have surgery within six weeks

are pregnant, or gave birth in the past three months

breastfed your baby within the past month

returned from a malaria area within the past month

have had sex with a new partner within the past six months

have had more than one sexual partner in the past six months

have had sexual contact in the past six months with someone whose sexual background is unknown to you

suspect that there's a chance you may have contracted a sexually-transmitted disease such as HIV or syphilis

are aware of the fact that you have contracted a sexually-transmitted disease such as HIV or syphilis

are taking certain medication or have had any serious illness.

Filling out forms

Faith getting her Iron tested

The Sister prepping Fareeha for her very 1st needle!!

Just look at that happy face man!!

Bulali who is also a 1st time donor requested to have his needle covered as he didnt want to see what was happening. LOl really love this dude

My 5th donation Torch

For more information you can checkoput the website here.