“Blood Donation”, its myths and benefits. Some of them included as follows:-
1) It doesn’t create weakness instead generates activeness and happiness is something you get free of cost after it!
2) The criteria to be able to donate blood :-
a) Age must be greater than 18
b) Weight must be more than 45 kgs
c) You should not have had certain diseases in the recent past like Dengue, Malaria, etc . These checks are done on the spot by the doctors.
d) Haemoglobin content should be more than 12 units and other factors are there which are told on the site.
3) The whole process is of 5-7 minutes including medical test and donation of blood.
4) You get a free test of various medical diseases like HIV, etc and get a medical report of it.
5) One unit of blood taken from you which contains 350ml to 450ml of blood is regained by your body within 24 hours.
6) For people who are fat – It helps reducing cholesterol 
7) Blood Donation reduced the possibility of heart diseases by 33 %.
Many lives are lost just because of the scarcity of the blood units. India requires 9 million blood units every year and collects only 6 million!
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