World Blood Donor Day celebrated across Denmark

Across Denmark, to support World Blood Donor Day 2014, a number of communities and local blood donor associations joined together to host a series of events.

At the annual ‘People’s Meeting’ in Allinge, on the island of Bornholm, volunteers from the National Blood Donor Association (NDBDA) handed out 1130 bottles of red soda, whilst Naestved volunteers also used bottles to create the shape of a large drop of blood to highlight the amount of blood used every day in Denmark.

In Elsinore, Kolding and Odense, volunteers from local blood donor organizations arranged fun races to celebrate the day.

New blood donors were recruited, which is essential to maintain the number of blood donors required to meet the needs of the 5.5 million Danish population.

More than 230 000 Danes are already registered blood donors which is around 7 % of the adult population between 17-67 years and over 300 000 donations are given each year.

Denmark is one of the 60 nations worldwide who have achieved 100% voluntary non remunerated blood donation.