Safe Blood Starts with Me - libdoc.who.int - World Health Organization
Safe Blood Starts with Me - libdoc.who.int - World Health Organization
Safe Blood Starts with Me - libdoc.who.int - World Health Organization
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markers screening. Around 150staff of the National <strong>Blood</strong>Transfusion Services—includingmedical officers, public healthinspectors, nurses and medicallaboratory technicians—participated in this scientificsession. A post conferenceworkshop was held at the <strong>Me</strong>dicalResearch Institute of Colombo forpostgraduate students <strong>int</strong>ransfusion medicine and medicaltechnologists of the NBTS.Press conferenceA press conference, presided bythe Honourable Minster of <strong>Health</strong>Audience at press conferenceand Indigenous <strong>Me</strong>dicine andattended by other officials of theMinistry, alerted media personnelfrom a wide range of pr<strong>int</strong> andelectronic media of the virtues ofvoluntary blood donation.Information on the <strong>int</strong>er-regionalconference was also accessible todelegates on web site pages.Television programmesA television programme on bloodsafety was prepared in which theMinister of <strong>Health</strong> and Indigenous<strong>Me</strong>dicine, the Director General of<strong>Health</strong> Services and the AdditionalSecretary, Ministry of <strong>Health</strong>participated. This programme wastelecast several times.Press coverageTwo of the largest circulatingnewspapers in the country carrieda full-page supplement on <strong>World</strong><strong>Health</strong> Day 2000.Hon. Minister inaugurating workshop for media personnelWorkshop for mediapersonnelA workshop was held for mediapersonnel on 5 April 2000 <strong>with</strong>the assistance of the <strong>Health</strong>Education Bureau, on the theme“<strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Blood</strong> <strong>Starts</strong> With <strong>Me</strong>”. TheMinister of <strong>Health</strong>, DirectorGeneral <strong>Health</strong> Services,inaugurated the workshop, whichincluded a technical session onblood transfusion services in SriLanka. A draft of a national policyon blood transfusion was releasedto the media on this occasion.Donor organizers meetA gathering of the variousorganizations involved inmotivating blood donors andholding blood donation camps washeld on 3 April at Suwa <strong>Me</strong>dura,Narahenpita. It was addressed bythe Minister of <strong>Health</strong> andattended by the AdditionalSecretary to the Ministry of<strong>Health</strong>, the Director of the NBTSand members of various religiousorganizations.The aim of the meet was to96 ▲ WORLD HEALTH DAY ▼ SAFE BLOOD STARTS WITH ME
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