"It Takes All Types" according to World Blood Donor Day there were affluence of humans to accord blood. I just never acquainted like they absolutely bare me to give. I got the alarm from the hospital lab, and they asked, 'Come appropriate now.' They said a accommodating was currently in anaplasty and was accident a lot of blood. Later I met Ambroise down in the ward. It was amazing to see him accomplishing accept and to acquisition out added about his ancestors and his activity actuality in Benin. Anywhere else, I'd never get the adventitious to do that The Africa Mercy is different as a 'walking' claret bank We usually accept about 30 abeyant donors for anniversary claret type.
Cotonou, Benin (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 15, 2009 -- Millions of humans about the apple owe their lives to individuals they will never accommodated -- humans who accord their claret to advice others. But aggregation associates on a Mercy Ship abide and plan just account abroad from the patients who accept their "gift of life" every day in West Africa.
Blood donors Marilyn Hansen (left), Joan Kotze (middle) and Kay Olive (right) appointment with surgical accommodating Ambroise in a accretion area onboard the Africa Mercy while docked in Benin, West Africa. Ambroise accustomed claret from the three women and an added nine added advance aggregation associates during an operation to abolish a ample bump from his arm.
First-time claret donor Marilyn Hansen from Los Angeles, California, volunteers onboard the Mercy Ship currently docked in Benin. The above teacher's claret donation alternating with that of 11 added claret donors onboard address afresh helped save the activity of 34-year-old Ambroise, a accommodating who accustomed a anaplasty for a large, benign, but growing tumor.
In account of World Blood Donor Day (June 14), Mercy Ships recognizes volunteers such as Hansen for their alertness to go the added mile to accompany achievement and healing to world's abandoned poor.
Hansen says that she had never donated claret at home. People gave claret for money, it went into a ample claret bank, and "there were affluence of humans to accord blood. I just never acquainted like they absolutely bare me to give." But she added that affair the being whose activity was afflicted by her donation has fabricated all the difference.
"I got the alarm from the hospital lab, and they asked, 'Come appropriate now.' They said a accommodating was currently in anaplasty and was accident a lot of blood. Later I met Ambroise down in the ward. It was amazing to see him accomplishing accept and to acquisition out added about his ancestors and his activity actuality in Benin. Anywhere else, I'd never get the adventitious to do that," commented Hansen.
Ambroise, who makes his active as a zemidjan disciplinarian (motorbike taxi), accustomed added than 12 pints of claret during his surgery. Since childhood, he lived with a bump on his shoulder. The bump grew and advance alternating his arm. It was aching and debilitating. He was not able to backpack annihilation and had to abrasion a long-sleeved shirt every day because he was abashed of the ample growth.
When Ambroise was a baby, a doctor had told his parents they could accomplish anaplasty to abolish the tumor. But his parents were afraid. Later, if he was older, they could not acquiesce it. Now, afterwards a chargeless anaplasty onboard the Mercy Ship, Ambroise can drive his zemidjan all day after pain. He can lift and backpack things. He is activity able and is thankful.
The claret case onboard the Africa Mercy is not stored in a refrigerator in neatly labeled bales for canicule or weeks. Instead, the 400-person advance aggregation assurance up to accord claret on appeal to advice patients accepting advised in one of the six advanced anaplasty suites onboard the amphibian hospital that sails to a altered West African anchorage every year.
"The Africa Mercy is different as a 'walking' claret bank," says Sarah Louden, Australian medical technologist. "We usually accept about 30 abeyant donors for anniversary claret type." The class onboard compares the accommodating claret samples, which are taken and activated aloft admission, with the abeyant aggregation donors. Crew associates are contacted as needed.
Louden says that currently 118 aggregation associates onboard the Mercy Ship accept active up to accord claret on call. Crew can be asked at any time day or night to accord a pint. Often, the donation, still warm, is absolved beeline over to the patient.
Since the address began surgeries in the anchorage of Cotonou this accomplished February, 60 units of claret accept been donated to 21 patients, according to a ship's spokesperson.
With the advice of the Mercy Ships amphibian claret bank, the medical aggregation onboard the Africa Mercy expects to appulse added than 53,000 humans through the hospital ship's casework during its 10-month break in the West African port.
ABOUT WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY: World Blood Donor day was appointed as an anniversary accident at the United Nations World Health Assembly in 2005. The all-embracing cold of WBDD is to actualize added acquaintance of the charge for safe claret for admixture and the accent of claret donation. Click on http://www.wbdd.org/
ABOUT MERCY SHIPS: Mercy Ships uses hospital ships to bear free, world-class bloom affliction casework to those after acceptance in the developing world. Founded in 1978 by Don and Deyon Stephens, Mercy Ships has formed in added than 70 countries, accouterment casework admired at added than $748 million, anon impacting added than 2.16 actor absolute beneficiaries. More than 1200 aggregation worldwide, apery added than 40 nations, are abutting anniversary year by over 2000 concise volunteers. Professionals including surgeons, dentists, nurses, bloom affliction trainers, teachers, cooks, seamen, engineers, and agriculturalists accord their time and abilities to the effort. Go to www.mercyships.org
Interviews with aggregation are available. Hi-res photos and accepted Mercy Ships advertisement footage clips are accessible for download at www.mercyshipsnews.org or aloft request.
Mercy Ships Media Contacts:
Diane Rickard, Director International Public Relations, Mercy Ships
44.1438.727.800 (UK)
Pauline Rick, U.S. Director of Public Relations, Mercy Ships
903-939-7649
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