World Blood Donor Day 14 June

Every year on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The event, established in 2004, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe and blood products and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood.

World Blood Donor Day is celebrated every year by the people in many countries around the world on 14 June as the same day was chosen due the reason to commemorate the birthday anniversary of the "Karl Landsteiner" (a great scientist who won the Noble Prize for his great discovery of the ABO blood group system). World Blood Donor Day celebration brings a precious opportunity to all donors for celebrating it on the national and global level and what a better way to celebrate somebody's birthday by becoming a reason to saving the lives of millions.

 
Above is the Image of Mr Karl Landsteiner an Austrian Biologist and Immunologist who discovered the various types (groups) of blood during 1900.  He is also known as "Father of Transfusion medicine".

World Blood Donor Day is one of eight official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day, and World AIDS Day.

The theme for Blood Donation Day in 2017 focus on blood donation in emergency situations. The first response when an emergency happens is "What Can You Do?" and the answer is "Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often" which is taken by World Health Organization.

The theme for Blood Donation Day in 2018 is 'Be there for someone else. Give blood. Share life"

Sudesh DJV writes on contemporary subjects in the form of Articles and poems which is in the interest of the Nation in particular and for the Mankind in general.