World Blood Donor Day, takes place on 14 June each year. The aim of this day is to raise global awareness on the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion and on the critical contribution voluntary, unpaid blood donors make to health systems.
The need for blood is universal, but it is not accessible to all those who need it. Safe blood and blood products and their transfusion are a critical aspect of care and public health. They save millions of lives and improve the health and quality of life of many patients every day.
The day provides an opportunity to call for action to governments and NHAs to provide adequate and sufficient resources and put in infrastructures to increase the collection of blood from voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors.
For 2021, the World Blood Donor Day slogan will be “Give blood and keep the world beating”. The message highlights the important contribution blood donors make to keeping the world pulsating by saving lives. It reinforces the global call for more people all over the world to donate blood regularly and contribute to better health.
A special focus of this year’s campaign will be the role of young people in ensuring a safe blood supply. Young people form a large sector of the population in many societies and are generally full of enthusiasm and creativity.
Italy will host the World Blood Donor Day 2021 through its National Blood Centre. The global event will be held in Rome today (14th June 2021)
Our involvement and support will help to ensure greater impact for World Blood Donor Day 2021, increasing recognition worldwide that giving blood is a life-saving act of solidarity and that services providing safe blood and blood products are an essential element of every health care system. So it is the high time we turn up to help our fellow human beings and let's get together to raise awareness and contribute towards the betterment of people who are in need.