On the 22nd, the National Health Commission introduced that in 2023, the number of unpaid blood donors in China will reach 16.99 million, and the number and total number of unpaid blood donations will reach a record high.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, employees of a number of state organs and directly affiliated units in Beijing participated in the group unit to donate blood for free at the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center. "I participated in my first unpaid blood donation 22 years ago. Mr. Gao, who is donating blood for the seventh time, said, "Donating blood has no effect on the health of healthy people, and it can also help people in need, which is a meaningful thing!" ”
In recent years, in order to encourage unpaid blood donation, corresponding incentive policies have been introduced in various places. In Beijing, for example, unpaid blood donors use blood for free for life, and enjoy accident insurance coverage within 14 days after donating blood. Blood donors and their spouses and immediate family members enjoy the right to have priority in blood use when they use blood clinically. At the same time, Beijing is promoting the preferential treatment of blood donation such as free visits to parks and free bus and subway rides for repeat blood donors.
Guo Yanhong, director of the Medical Emergency Department of the National Health Commission, said that the number and volume of unpaid blood donors in China have continued to grow for more than 20 years. In 2023, the number and total number of unpaid blood donations in China will reach a record high. The number of unpaid blood donors nationwide reached 16.99 million, and the total number of blood donations was 28.92 million units, an increase of 5 percent compared with 20229% and 48%。