The National Blood Donation Initiative set a Guinness record on Tuesday, with the number of blood donors and commitments reaching 5,555 within eight hours. The campaign broke the earlier record of 3,034 donors set in India. Ahmed Jamal al Din Jabar, Arbitrator of the Guinness World Records, announced the new record. The initiative was organised by the Fellowship Fund of Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Blood Donation Services Department in the Ministry of Health.
The number of blood donors and commitments reached 5555 donors within eight-hour, exceeding the blood donors number in the Guinness World Records in India, which was 3034 donors.
The result was announced yesterday in a ceremony held under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Saidi, Minister of Health at the Ministry of Tourism's theater.
Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Mandhari, Director General of Administrative affairs and Head of the National Blood Donation Initiative pointed out in his speech that this Initiative is the first of its kind in the Arab World. He added that the Initiative aims to involve the community members, as well as promoting the partnership concept between the government sector (the military and civil) and the private sector.
Ahmed Jamal Al-Din Jabar, Arbitrator of the Guinness World Records announced the total number of blood donors from the Governorates of Muscat, Dhofar, North & South Al-Batinah, Al-Dhakhiliyah, Al-Dhahira, Al-Buraimi, as well as North & South Al- Sharqiyah.
The National Initiative had continued during 28-day, and the donors were received yesterday within 8-hour.
Dr Zainab Al-araimi, Director of Blood Donation Services Department pointed out that since the number of blood units in the MOH blood banks are about 60000 units per year, the number that can be collected in the day of the event has been calculated provided that not exceed the weekly need for each blood bank participating in the initiative. The number of donation commitments was specified according to the actual monthly need for each blood bank, in order to avoid wasting the blood collected during the donation commitment period (28 days).
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