World Blood Donor Day 2023: 14 June

World Blood Donor Day 2023: 14 June

Category : Important Days Published on: June 15 2023

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June 14 has been celebrated as World Blood Donor Day since 2004.
It is a day which is to raise awareness for the necessity of blood donation, while also a day which celebrates blood donors who have helped save countless lives.
For World Blood Donor Day 2023, the World Health Organization has assigned the theme, "Give blood, give plasma, share life, share often."
The theme highlights the crucial role that every individual can play by giving the valuable gift of blood and plasma.
In 2004 World Blood Donor Day was first distinguished by the WHO. In the 58th World Health Assembly, 2005 it was declared as an annual global event to raise awareness about the importance of blood donation.
English physician Richard Lower was the first one to examine the science of blood donation with animals and he managed to successfully transfuse blood between two dogs with no appreciable ill effects.
Who celebrates Karl Landsteiner's birthday as World Blood Donor Day.
Landsteiner was Austrian American immunologist, pathologist. He was awarded Nobel Prize in 1930 for his works on blood group and development of modern blood transfusion system.

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