Is blood transfusion safe?

Millions of people around the world but especially in poor countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia are fond of asking traditional questions: is blood transfusion safe? Can one get HIV/AIDS through blood donation? In east Africa where the head offices of our media house are located, people still ask the same questions.

It looks people are eagerly in need of finding answers to these questions. It is a simple procedure in which blood is given to someone to make up for a loss of blood.

Millions of hospitals around the globe use the blood got from people to help people who are injured, have surgery or being treated for diseases that affect the blood.

Transfusions are usually given through a tiny tube that is inserted into a vein with a small needle. Each year in Uganda about 1800,000 units of blood is needed. Many people in the world worry about getting diseases from infected blood. But today we tell you that blood for transfusion is safe according to doctors in US, German, and England.

Doctors carefully test all donated blood to make sure that it is safe. So if the blood has HIV, Hepatitis B, C, syphilis, West Nile virus, or other infections, it is destroyed.

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