The Rotary Club of Macau launched yesterday an RhD negative blood donation drive, a blood type that is rather rare among Asians but more common among Caucasians, public broadcaster Rádio Macau/TDM reported.
According to the report, the campaign will run between this and next month.
The report said the aim of the drive was to compensate for the decrease in the number of Caucasian blood donors last year – their number fell from 135 in 2019 to 108 last year.
“An equilibrium in Macau’s blood reserves must be maintained,” Rotary Club of Macau President João Francisco Pinto was quoted by TDM as saying. Pinto is a senior staff member of TDM. Pinto said that a number of foreigners had left Macau at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic early last year.
The Rotary Club of Macau has cooperated in blood donation drives with the government-run Blood Transfusion Centre since 2001.
While the blood donation drives involving Caucasians were routinely held at one location on just one day in the past, this time they will take place at eight locations over several weekends.
