blood donation

Appeal for healthy residents to donate blood

Reading Time: < 1 minute Kenya National Blood Transfusion Services has urged eligible residents of Bungoma county to donate blood. According to Moses Mwetaya (pictured), […]

As a nation, we’ve come from far on blood donation

Reading Time: 3 minutes I first trained my attention on blood when, as a child, I heard murmurs about the important role it had […]

Former Red Cross boss Abass Gullet gets State job

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Patrick Mwangi The long-awaited reconstruction of the dysfunctional blood donor services in the country has started in earnest. Health […]

Alarm as Mombasa blood transfusion banks run dry

Reading Time: < 1 minute An acute blood shortage has hit Mombasa county with patients in dire need of blood transfusion bearing the brunt. According […]

Full scale medical crisis as hospitals run out of blood

Reading Time: 3 minutes Patrick Mwangi, Sophie Njoka and Rebecca Wangari A full fledged crisis has taken hold across the country’s hospitals as blood banks […]

Expert advocates for modern blood transfusion system

Reading Time: 3 minutes Patrick Mwangi Kenya needs to move blood transfusion  system to the modern technology which enables collection of specific blood components […]

Wang’endo: Kenya’s undoing is over-reliance on donor funding

Reading Time: 3 minutes For the last two years, the Committee of Blood Donation and Transfusion Stakeholders has been working all out to try […]