Blood donation in your country?

In my country you can donate blood, but you are not paid for blood. From what I have heard, noone gives you anything, but they check you are ok before and after. The blood passes through several tests before it is actually used in patients, so it´s not a danger. Anyway, besides the blood that hospitals have through these means, when you are going to have to have a surgery where blood will be needed, the hospital asks you to bring a certain amount of donors. They will make the procedure anyway if you don´t get them all, but all helps. I have never donated blood for health reasons. I´m afraid, years ago it was a lot more dangerous to accept blood from someone else.

I donated my blood to the blood bank several time in the past, i was not rewarded with food or drinks at all, i was not paid with money either. Even with all these dis-incentives, i still donate my blood when the hospital has a blood drive due to insufficient supply for the needy patient. I can't say of other people, some may want to sell their blood only for money, not donate as free; as not every one can see beyond money as the most important thing in their life. Whenever i decided to 'donate' my blood, i usually could care less about the money or food they gave out, the only concern i have by giving out my vital life supporting blood is to make sure that hospital is actually using my blood to save someone life in an emergency room; not selling it for profit. The rest of it is insignificant to me whether i was rewarded with $$ and drinks or not.

I've never heard than anyone who gives blood in sweden are reward with cash. But that they can choose a present, like a towel, or some other knick knacks. Giving blood is a volunteer gesture to help others in a humanly way. However after they have given blood they get a healthy meal for free.

Ive tried donating my blood a couple of times. Here in Philippines. Blood donation can either be free or payed if you donate. It depends on other people if what they really want. But for me I donate my blood for free. Saving lives is more satisfying for me than being payed.

Here in the Philippines we have the Philippine National Red Cross to go to when we want to donate blood. They give you a card after and when the time comes you need blood for yourself (or perhaps a family member) you go to the center, present your card and then they give you the blood. You can also be a walk-in donor in some hospitals. If you do not have the Red Cross card and you badly need the blood there are special arrangements where people ask someone to look for donors for them. They are either paid or compensated in other forms for their blood. I have also seen appeals for blood from a friend on Facebook, whose daughter had dengue fever. Here there are no rewards for like a jar of honey, a pack of candies or a commemorative mug. Consider yourself lucky if you are given a pack fruit juice.hehe

I haven't donated blood yet, but my friends did. I live in China. When people donate their blood in my country, people get rewards, like bottles, certificate of donation, cookies, etc. Well, once I heard my friends donated blood platelets in order to get paid for travelling.

Over here, the government does not give cash or gifts for blood donation. The benefit is that you can pay lower medical bill if you are a blood donar. You can also assign your parents to receive the benefits. The government is also very concerned about tainted blood. If a person donates tainted blood, he can go to jail for a very long time. Since there is no cash reward or gifts, it really makes no sense for anyone to donate bad blood.

In my country, people who donate their blood could get a certificate and some snack suchh as cakes and milk. The laws and regulations forbid medical institutions to pay blood donors for their donation. I also heard that in some undeveloped areas people are paid for their blood donation. I know such donation contains a lot of problems, but I could understand why they do in this way. To those blood donors, they are very poor so that they want to earn some money by means of blood donation. To those medical institutions, they are suffering from acute shortage of volunteer blood donors, so they have to buy blood from people in order to satisfy the need of operations.

There are many rules and limitations when it comes to donate blood to avoid having blood that might be dangerous for a possible patient. For example, in the country where I lived before you couldn't donate blood in case of having any recent tattoo or piercing, or weighting less than a certain weight. In my current country you can't donate blood if you have been to any of the countries in a certain list for a certain period of time. Due to those reasons I have always been in the banned list for donating blood, so I don't really know what can you receive when you do it

They pay for plasma donations. They take the blood out of one arm, run it threw a centrifuge and then put the red and white cells back in the other arm. this can be done more often than a normal blood donation. I did this a few times in college when I was really short on money. Every time I do a full blood donation, I have passed out. My blood pressure drops real low, so I have done it in quite a while. they normally have cookies and juice to eat afterwards. When you donate certain amounts you get a T-shirt or other such gifts.

I think that donating blood is a life saver first of all and to say THANK YOU for doing so. Here in the states we do get paid sometimes, but they only allow you to do so every so often AND you have to be screened before donating. Back before they did this there were a lot of diseases and such like HIV and LYME that was pass through the blood to the donar. Come to find out some people are immune to the disease at times. I thought for sure they would investigate that. If they have I have not heard of it. I have never donated and the reason is I am disabled. I was tested with Lyme Disease and I don't want to pass it on to any other person.

In my country it is dont purly out of goodwill and people ask for nothing. The hospital offers them a drink- something that is enjoyed widely and is healthy to help build more blood-and keep some ppl from fainting, but our people ask for nothing to donate blood and they are offered very little.

In mu country, no payment or incentive is given. Maybe an occasional pen and a drink but the people here do it out of goodwill and to save lives. They would literally know someone in the hospital who needs it and go spread the word amounst friends and they go. No reward.