DISCLAIMER … National Blood Service reacts strongly to allegations of "spiritual sacrifice" | General news

The National Blood Service (NBS) expressed its disgust for video and audio recordings circulating on social media claiming that the blood donation exercise by the business group Despite and Special are at ritual purposes.

Some YouTuber the name of the evangelist Emmanuel Addai alleged on social media that the blood drawn from volunteer blood donors who patronize the activity does not go to the blood bank but is used for a certain spiritual sacrifice . is quite shocked that a generous gesture of the chairs of the special group and special societies, Dr. Osei Kwame (despite) and Dr. Ernest Ofori Sarpong, to save lives, can be distorted in the public domain.

The National Blood Service (NBS) noted with profound shock and total disappointment the video and audio recordings of an evangelist, Emmanuel Addai, touring in some social media circles alleging that the blood donated by Volunteers Blood donors during blood drive campaigns organized by the business group Despite are used for rituals by Dr. (HC) Osei Kwame Despite. The statements of the so-called Evangelist that blood collected from volunteer blood donors who frequent such blood donations do not reach hospitals are misinformed and describe a lack of understanding of the blood donation process. The NBS wants to categorically badert that these statements of Evangelist Addai on the recordings are palpably false, unfounded and very regrettable, "said a statement by the National Blood Service.

The NBS advises the general public: ignore these ridiculous pretensions of the so-called evangelist saying that " in recent years, the business group Despite has always supported the NBS in its efforts to meet national blood needs. The SNB appreciates the tremendous contributions of the Business Group and other organizations, religious organizations, educational institutions and organized community groups to the steady growth of voluntary blood donation in Ghana.

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" Unpaid, regular volunteer blood donors are recognized worldwide as the safest blood source for transfusion and the most effective means sure to provide and maintain the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that 1% of the population regularly consume blood to meet national blood needs, but Ghana's blood supply currently rests in large part on replacement donations from family and friends of ", further explained the Blood Transfusion Service

The Service also unequivocally declared hat" NO STAFF OF THE MALGRE BUSINESS GROUP n & # 39; was involved in the technical processes of blood donation exercise … "