Accra, February 8, 2020// – MTN Ghana Foundation is targeting to collect a total of 5,000 units of blood during its blood donation project on Friday the 14th of February 2020.
The project dubbed-‘Save A Life’ will be held in over 30 bleeding centres across all the 16 regions in the country. The 5,000 units of blood or more will augment the blood banks across the country.
Speaking ahead of the event, Corporate Services Executive of MTN Ghana, Samuel Koranteng said: “The MTN Ghana Foundation instituted the blood donation exercise to collect blood to improve health delivery. The initiative has been phenomenal and it is important to sustain it”
“In view of our commitment to save lives through blood donation, the Foundation is appealing to members of the public to come out in their numbers to express their love on Valentine’s Day by donating a pint of blood to help save a life,” he said.
The MTN ‘Save a Life’ project is an annual Valentine’s Day blood donation exercise, organized by the MTN Ghana Foundation.
The initiative gives MTN staff and other individuals the opportunity to donate blood and stock the National Blood Bank and other regional hospitals, Mr Koranteng explained.
The initiative which started in 2011 was in response to calls made by the National Blood Service for voluntary contributions to replenish critically low stocks of blood.
Since its inception, over 14,000 pints of blood have been collected.
In recognition of its efforts, the MTN Ghana Foundation was adjudged the highest corporate blood donor in 2013, second highest corporate donor in 2014 and one of the highest corporate donors in 2015.
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