Can You Not Donate Blood if You Have Tattoos?
FIT reached out to an expert to bust myths about blood donation.
By: NAVYA PRAKASH
"Every year, India needs around 14.6 million units of blood. And over the years, we've consistently fallen short by at least a million units of blood while treating critical patients."
This is what the Union Health Ministry said in June 2023 while talking about the country's blood shortage.
One unit of blood can save at least three lives, yet, thousands of patients and their caregivers scramble each day to arrange blood for medical procedures.
This has, in some part, to do with the lack of awareness and spread of mis/disinformation around blood donation.
FIT busts some common myths about blood donation which is keeping more people from doing it.
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