A professor of Haematology and immediate past president, Nigerian Society of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Aisha Kuliya-Gwarzo, speaks toon blood donation and transfusion in Nigeria, the challenge of wrong genotype test results and how to address the brain drain in the health sectorNigerian Society for Haematology and Blood Transfusion, which you served as the president till August, has been in existence since 1972.
During the World Blood Donor Day in June, the World Health Organisation said Nigeria needed about 1.8 million pints of blood annually, but the National Blood Service Commission said it was only collecting about 500,000 pints. How can we bridge that shortfall in the short, medium and long term? If the awareness is sustained and given that we have a largely youthful population, do you foresee a time Nigeria would have blood sufficiency?
This is always a difficult question, but I think with advocacy and education from an early age, so that children would know about it and be able to make an informed decision when the time is right, it is possible to eliminate marriage between affected individuals. That would lead to a decline in the number of children born with the disorder and our energy would then be diverted to caring for those that are already carriers. But we need to do the needful and start educating people early.
Would you encourage people who have been misled by wrong results to go to court for that to serve as deterrence for others?
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