Blood Transfusion Initiate Visits Adekunle Ajasin University

Blood Transfusion Initiate Visits AAUA
By: Olusegun Akinboyewa

• kind-hearted Aauaites donate
• Over 30 donors recorded

        The AAUA campus on Wednesday, 24 February welcomed a blood donation body called " National Blood Transfusion service, Ado-Ekiti", Echo Newspaper learnt.

    The blood donation initiative who was sponsored by United States of America and Save Blood For Africa, came all the way from Ado-Ekiti, the body according to the Head of Recruiters, Mr. Bello started business in 2008, and they have unarguably changed lives with the programme the initiative offers for humanity.

     During the interview section with Echo Newspaper, Mr. Bello also said, "I think the reason why the school authorities gave us this opportunity is that they know that blood donation processes is an important and centralized something, if a person donates blood here in AAUA, the user of the blood may be Lagos State University and his or her life will be saved".

    "People do not donate blood anyhow, the ladies donate four times a month,while men donate three times month,thanks to Mr. ikoku, the CMB for the health centre and the Dean of student Affairs for giving in this opportunity and we normally conduct tests to check the blood level of those who want to donate because too much of blood in the body has side effects and it endangers the heart. Those people who need this blood are pregnant women, accident victims, people suffering anaemia", Mr bello added.

    When the head of internal recruiter was asked about the challenges faced by the organization,he said that the major challenge is that students are still thinking of run recompense in the transfusion, the young man stated that some students expect big compensation and not a bottle of malt drink that they used to entertain the donors, but the initiative as at the time of the interview had recorded almost 30 donors.

     

      Kind hearted Aauaites found it requisite participating in the exercise, when one of the donors, Linus, was interviewed, he said, " The reason why I have it in mind to donate my blood is that I am a kind hearted guy, and I love saving lives, it is not that they will give me anything (money) but I just love to help those who need my assistance". Another donor, Adeniyi Rotimi David, a 100 level student in the Department of linguistics said, " I just love saving lives, when I got to the attendant, he said in normal ground, i should have 11.5 amount of blood in my body, but I had 16.9, so there is no reason why I should not save life by donating blood"

    The blood transfusion programme which was exercised at the front veranda of Olusegun Obasanjo multipurpose hall is only two day, but the passionate attendants of the blood transfusion initiative are looking up to attending to as many donors as possible.

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Consciousness Alert: Looming Disaster

Looming disaster

It appears those saddled with the responsibility of clearing the drainages in the school are not alive to its duties, and if this unsavoury act of theirs continues unchecked, then a disaster looms.

  As we speak, some  drainages are smelling and untidy but the one that grabs our attention the most is the drainage at the back of some resturants, ones way to the public toilet next to the Aluta market.
However, keeping mute on issue as germane as this would be disastrous because of the health and environmental implications this potends. As a result this should also be a source of concern to right thinking persons on campus.

Identification of a problem, they say goes a long way in keeping  it from becoming an emergency, that is 'if'  swift actions are taken. We have identified this and we expect  a swift action as quick as possible, otherwise the foul odour that pervades the area where we have this drainage can cause cholera, malaria amg others all which are communicable diseases, meaning every persons on campus are at risk of contacting this diseases,  generating into an epidemic, which we dont pray for.   Apart from this, as soon as the rain begins it will stop the free flow of water which is harmful to the environment and a threat to some structures.

The most patethic and disheartening, is the fact that we have some resturants Where staffs, lecturers, students amg other patronise prepare their food around this area.
  Cooking in an untidy area like this exposes the food to bacteria which is not good for the health. Such unwholesome act  should militated.

We are of the view that measures should be taken to pre-empt and avert this kind of unsavouring situation from futher occurance.
Meanwhile, this should not be seen as an attempt to denigrate or paint the image of the sch in black, (we have nothing against the school we are partner in progres, infact the sch effort towards our existence are in no way small, but we as  a medium we are bound by the social responsibility theory) rather  this should be seen as a timely alert to safe students and other beings on campus from the health and  envirönmental implications this unsavoury act potends.

Therefore, relevant authorities saddled with the respönsibility should immediately take swift actions, or be made thereof to pay for damages their unsavoury act may cause.
 Beyond this, we would like the management to strengthen its capacity by creating an effective monitoring units to  look at this kind of issue so that lives are not toyed with.

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