In winter, the weather is cold, and the blood collection on the street enters the off-season.
According to the Beijing Blood Center, the blood ** in Beijing continues to be in a tight balance. Since December 2023, the center has successively issued an initiative to groups and individuals, calling on the public to actively donate blood.
To mobilize enthusiasm for blood donation, in addition to raising awareness of public welfare, a series of practical issues also need to be considered. Tsinghua University group blood donation organization told reporters that the epidemic has interrupted the "memory" of students' blood donation, and the new student group needs to further strengthen mobilization. In addition, practical factors such as cold winters and approaching exam times need to be considered when choosing the time of the event.
The blood ** is tightly balanced, and the blood center issues a blood donation initiative.
Have you donated blood this winter?
Winter is the traditional off-season for blood collection. Recently, Guo Jin, chief of the business section of the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center, introduced to ** that Beijing blood ** can basically meet the demand for medical and clinical blood, but it continues to be in a tight balance.
According to the "Beijing Blood Donation Regulations", "December of each year is the Publicity Month of Unpaid Blood Donation", and all relevant units will make full use of a variety of ** and various platforms to innovate publicity methods and methods, expand online and offline publicity channels, and create a strong atmosphere for blood donation publicityBlood donation agencies in all districts will also strengthen coordination and communication with blood stations and medical institutions, and encourage and call on more members of the public to participate in the action of unpaid blood donation.
Since December last year, the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center has issued a blood donation initiative to the public.
Recently, some citizens received a text message, "From December 29th to January 31st, 2024, take this text message to the blood donation point of the blood center to participate in individual voluntary free donation of whole blood (excluding hospital groups), you can get a New Year gift package, and you can also participate in **Win Gifts!"This event invites people who have donated whole blood to Beijing Blood Center since 2019. ”
In addition to inviting individuals to donate blood, Beijing has also called on groups to participate in unpaid blood donation in winter. Guo Jin said that compared with street blood donation, the advantage of group unit blood donation is that it is more planned and organized, and the annual blood donation volume of group units accounts for about 20%, which is a powerful supplement to street unpaid blood donation.
Participating groups such as colleges and universities and fire brigades in Beijing donated blood.
The reporter learned from the blood center that since this winter, some group units have responded to the call and organized members to donate blood for free. These units include colleges and universities, fire brigades, first-class institutions, grassroots streets, etc.
On December 15, 2023, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, the Municipal Blood Donation Office, and the Municipal Red Cross Blood Center held the launching ceremony of winter free blood donation for group units.
On December 16-17, 2023, 279 students from Tsinghua University participated in blood donation. According to reports, in 2023, Tsinghua University will organize a total of 6 group blood donations, with 2,030 people donating a total of 2,391 units. On December 20, 2023, more than 80 people from the Liangxiang Campus of Beijing Technology and Business University participated in blood donation, and a total of more than 400 people participated in blood donation activities last year.
The scene of the blood donation activity of Tsinghua University. Courtesy of Tsinghua University.
Dialogue Li Haoyang, President of the Student Branch of the Red Cross Society of Tsinghua University:
The impact of the pandemic on blood donation enthusiasm is still there, and more new students on campus need to be mobilized."
Beijing News: How does Tsinghua's group blood donation generally carry out?
Li Haoyang: Since 2002, we have been organizing large-scale group blood donations. Since 2017, it has been organized four times a year, combined with special time nodes, such as the spring semester and the anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, Tsinghua University celebration, graduation season, autumn semester, autumn semester, etc., which include activities mainly for freshmen groups, hoping to stimulate their enthusiasm for blood donation, and mainly for graduates, some students will donate blood as their graduation commemoration. Last year, it was held 6 times, and the division of blood components was added.
Beijing News: What are the characteristics of the students who come to participate in blood donation?
Li Haoyang: From a professional point of view, the distribution is relatively even, and the activities are all self-registered, and there is no sub-college organization. When it comes to individuals, it varies from person to person. Most of the students have the habit of donating blood themselves, and one of our graduate student volunteers has donated blood 99 times in total, and his enthusiasm is very highSome students will be infected by the collective, such as graduation souvenirs;In addition to blood donation, some students also participate in other public welfare activities such as hematopoietic stem cell donation and Winter Olympics volunteers.
At the blood donation event at Tsinghua University, blood donors wait for blood samples to be collected. Courtesy of Tsinghua University.
Beijing News: How do you let students know that there is a blood donation event?
Li Haoyang: Offline publicity is carried out by setting up display boards next to the main road of the school and posters in areas where students often moveWe push messages online on the school's WeCom so that all students can receive them.
Beijing News: Winter is the off-season for blood collection on the streets, does this season have an impact on group blood donation?
Li Haoyang: In winter, because it is too cold, the number of people participating in the activity is not as large as in other seasons. For example, in March and October last year, there were about 700 and 600 people participating respectively, and in December there were only about 300 people.
Winter is also easy to "bump" with the busy time of students, such as the fourth and sixth grade exams, everyone may be more willing to concentrate on studying, will divide less energy to participate in other activities, in the design of the activity time should be more elegant, together with undergraduate and graduate students.
Beijing News: How can more students participate in the future?
Li Haoyang: Judging from our blood donation data over the years, the number of people participating in blood donation activities is increasing year by year, reaching the highest peak in 2019, with about 3,500 people participating throughout the year. Because of the new crown epidemic, it fell all at once in 2020. In the past three years, everyone's enthusiasm has gradually rebounded, but the impact of the epidemic still exists, the old students have memories of blood donation, and the new students lack intuitive feelings.
Tsinghua University has a lot of international students who are also interested in public welfare, and we will strengthen their mobilization in the future.
In addition, the group blood donation time is fixed, and for students who are particularly active, we are trying to organize them to donate blood to the blood center. The school has also organized teachers and students to donate blood to each other, which is used for emergency response and can also become a force in the future.
Beijing News reporter Dai Xuan.
Edited by Zhang Lei and proofread by Jia Ning.