Student Blood Drop Campaign – Results

The Red Cross Slovakia in cooperation with the National Blood Transfusion Service in Slovakia and haematology and blood transfusion departments of Slovak hospitals organised the “Student Blood Drop” campaign from the 17 October to the 19 November 2011. This year the campaign focused on attracting blood donors from among students and young people and it was carried out under the motto “Time for Life!“ Its aim was to promote the idea of blood donation among young people and to raise their interest in such a highly humane deed as the blood donation undoubtedly is. Since the campaign was particularly aimed at new donors, the local Red Cross units organized more than 100 blood drives into secondary schools and universities. Out of 25,861 potential blood donors who took part in the campaign, 22,001 managed to donate, including 6,178 first-time donors, mostly in Bratislava and Košice.

During the campaign, the Bronze Plaque of Dr. Jánsky (for 10 volunteer blood donations)  was awarded to two students of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice:

• Lenka Radová
• Martin Marton

Red Cross Košice Unit – results:

2,783 donors, including 642 first-time donors, visited donation centres or blood drives during the 5 weeks of the campaign. 1,553 students took part in the Student Blood Drop, 614 were the first-time donors:

• Secondary schools: 909 donors, including 406 first-time donors.
• Universities: 644 donors, including 208 first-time donors.                                                          

Big THANK YOU! goes to the organisers and all the participants for preparing such a humane and respectable tribute to the great idea of Henry Dunant.

Results

The Student Blood Drop at the Faculty of Public Administration