{"id":66115,"date":"2014-08-09T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66115\/celebrate-women-by-donating-blood\/"},"modified":"2014-08-08T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:44:27","slug":"celebrate-women-by-donating-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/09\/celebrate-women-by-donating-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate women by donating blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August is the month in which we celebrate women in South Africa, for their courage and their resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) knows the challenges many women face when they experience gynaecological and other childbirth complications.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the death of women from childbirth complications continues to be a serious global health challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, approximately 800 women die needlessly from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications daily.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Severe bleeding during delivery and after childbirth is a major cause of death, illness and long-term disability.<\/p>\n<p>However, blood transfusion has been identified as one of the nine key life-saving interventions for the management of pregnancy-related complications.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 26 per cent of donated blood that SANBS collects is used for childbirth and gynaecological cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At SANBS we work hard at ensuring that there is always adequate, safe blood available, but this is only possible with the help of blood donors,&#8221; said Vanessa Raju, communications manager for SANBS.<\/p>\n<p>In honour of women&#8217;s month, SANBS urges people who meet the minimum requirements to help prevent maternal deaths and any other complications, by donating blood.<\/p>\n<p>Minimum blood donor requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aged between 16 and 65 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Weigh 50kg or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Good health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead a sexually safe lifestyle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='3084538aec97fa5a8dd03a6800d10d09'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donate blood this Women&#8217;s Month and save a life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":66243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1282,1475,979,969,2734,1474,1452,1453,1479],"class_list":["post-66115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-blood","tag-donate-blood","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-sanbs","tag-women","tag-womens-day","tag-womens-month"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["blood","donate blood","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","SANBS","women","Women's Day","womens month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}