The survey by WHO considered that blood need of the country will be sufficient if only 3 percent of the population of the country regularly donate their blood. But this index is 0.8% in our country.
Study of anemia in the world population shows that there is 76.1 percent among the preschool children, 69 percent among the pregnant women and 73.5 percent among the women and 33 percent among school-aged children , 40.2 percent among the men and 39.1 percent among the elderly people or it is relatively low percent.
In Mongolia, within national level, for the last 10 years, the number of donor blood and blood products production had been increased by 2 times, but childbirth complications, injuries, reflecting the growing congenital blood disorders, cancer, and other diseases of blood and demand of blood products are also increasing.
Donating blood is giving life to others life but it also is a gift to yourself.