B.R.S.  BLOOD   DONOR  DAY

September 2009

A record 135 people gave blood at the donor morning at Dr. Akcicek Hospital on Saturday

morning organised by the British Residents’ Society.  This brought the total of blood donated via B.R.S. to 313 units so far in 2009.

       Thanks go to the Ladies in Red for their sterling work in raising the awareness of the need for blood, vital at the end of the Ramadan fast month when the reserves at the Central Blood Bank are critically low.

       Norman and Sandy Hewitt presented donors with eye catching car stickers, designed by Alison Dowey, proclaiming “I am a blood donor”

       Pat Holmes signed in the donors while Karen Wenborn collected email addresses for the data base of now over 400 donors.   Shelley Huston kept a watchful eye over the 11 beds and Lee Mullins and Susie Beauvoir dispensed reviving cups of coffee or tea and biscuits.

       Prue Lundie, who has master minded the donor days for many years, taking over from the founder Tony Hutchinson, was thrilled with the good turn out and said everyone did brilliantly.

      The next B.R.S. Blood Donor Day will be on 24 October at Yeni Erenkoy Klinik.