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Rahim Uddin
SP13-BPH-023
April 02, 2014
Submitted to: Amir jafri
Blood Donation

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Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia that is supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.4 million in the English Wikipedia. According to this site A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation. https://www.aabb.org/resources/donation/Pages/whydonate.aspx This site represents an organization Advancing Transfusion and Cellular Therapies Worldwide. This sites provides information about the importance of donating a blood. According to this site A blood donation truly is a “gift of life” that a healthy individual can give to others in their community who are sick or injured. In one hour’s time, a person can donate one unit of blood that can be separated into four individual components that could help save multiple lives. http://www.oneblood.org/media/nancys-news/20376-Health-Benefits-of-Donating-Blood.stml This site provide online platform for different users to donate blood. This site also shares the benefits of donating a blood. According to site the studies published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, blood donors are 88% less likely to suffer a heart attack and 33% less likely to suffer any type of cardiovascular event. http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/donation-process This is an American site which shares information about the different processes of blood donation. This site also shares the information that how you should mentally prepare for donation and what are the precautionary measures you should take after donation.
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