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Media campaign to boost blood reserves
MISA-Zimbabwe
January 24, 2012

The National Blood Services (NBS) together with MISA-Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and Friends of the late veteran journalist Freedom Moyo will on Saturday, 28 January 2012 launch a campaign to encourage members of the public to donate blood.

The campaign follows the death of Freedom who died at West End Clinic in Harare on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 after sustaining serious injuries in a traffic accident three days earlier.

Medical personnel who attended to Freedom struggled to secure emergency supplementary blood in the wake of his excessive bleeding from injuries sustained in the traffic accident.

The event will take place at the NBS offices next to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals along Mazowe Street in Harare at 1030hrs.

The NBS will provide transport to members of the public interested in supporting this worthy cause. Transport will be available from Town House to the NBS offices as from 10am.

A similar event will take place on the same day in Bulawayo at the NBS/ United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) at 10am.

For more details on the Harare event please contact NBS public affairs manager Esther Massundah on 0712-612-829. For the Bulawayo event, please kindly contact Mfundo Ngwenya on 0712-639-432 or Nashford: 0772-286-876.

Kindly note that the NBS is not an HIV testing centre.

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