BY AUGUSTINA OKINEDO
FOLLOWING THE ATTACK BY GUNMEN ON SOME WORSHIPERS IN OWO, ONDO STATE ,THE FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER FMC OWO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES TEACHING HOSPITAL , UNIMEDTH AKURE ARE FILLED WITH THE VICTIMS OF THE FATAL ATTACK
THIS HAS INCREASED REQUESTS FOR BLOOD DONATIONS TO HELP SAVE THE LIVES OF VICTIMS.
UNIMED TEACHING HOSPITAL ONDO, MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL AND COLLEGE OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ALL IN AKURE WERE AMONG THE CENTRES DESIGNATED TO RECEIVE VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATIONS
AS AT TEN O’ CLOCK IN THE MORNING, MANY PEOPLE WERE SEEN ON
QUEUE WAITING FOR THEIR TURN TO DONATE BLOOD.
AMONG THE EARLY CALLERS AT THE UNIMED TEACHING HOSPITAL BLEEDING CENTER WERE MRS CATHERINE ADELEKE AND MR TOLUWALOPE BABAFEMI WHO SAID THEY WERE DONATING BLOOD AS SACRIFICE TO SAVE LIVE.
GIVING AN ASSESSMENT OF THE DONATION LEVEL SO FAR, THE DIRECTOR MEDICAL LABORATORY UNIMED TEACHING HOSPITAL, MRS CHRISTIANA AWE SAID PEOPLES RESPONSE HAD BEEN IMPRESSIVE BUT THERE WAS NEED FOR MORE DONATIONS.
THE SITUATION WAS NOT TOO DIFFERENT AT THE MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL OKE ARO AS MEDICAL LAB TECHNICIANS WERE WORKING FRANTICALLY TO OBTAIN BLOOD FROM VOLUNTARY DONORS.
SPEAKING THE DIRECTOR MEDICAL LABORATORY, MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL MRS FLORENCE ABIONA GAVE KUDOS TO THE HEALTH PERSONNEL WHO HAD BEEN ON THEIR TOES TO KEEP THE BLOOD BANK WORKING.
IT IS THEIR HOPE THAT MORE DONOR WOULD COME UP TO DONATE FOR VICTIMS OF THE OWO CHURCH MASSACRE.