Who Can Donate Blood?

Anyone who is between the ages of 18 and 60 and weighs more than 45 Kgs (if female) and 50 Kgs (if male) can donate blood. In fact donating blood is simple and easy and has significant mental, spiritual and health benefits.

• Blood donors can taste the priceless feeling of saving life without harming themselves in any way.
• The quintessential message of every religion is to serve mankind. Donating blood can be one of the best ways to serve humanity, since it can mean the difference between life and death. The 32^nd verse in Sura Mayeda in the Quran says, “…And if anyone saved a life it would be as if he saved the life of entire mankind.”
• Donating blood is beneficial for health. Donating blood stimulates the bone marrow inside the body to produce new blood cells. Within two weeks of donation, sufficient cells are produced to make up for the lost blood. Donating blood three times a year increases the vitality of red blood cells.
• A medical survey in England shows that regular blood donors frequently remain free of complex and chronic diseases. Blood donors are also at much lower risk of heart disease and heart attack.