"Thai Red Cross"

In a bid to mitigate social and economic pressure on those having HIV/Aids, the Thai Red Cross is now selling self-test kits.

The Thai Red Cross has appealed for blood donations as their stocks are dwindling.

A TEENAGER’S family learned about his decision to donate his organs only after his death, it was disclosed yesterday at a press conference.

Only 55 per cent of blood donors give blood annually, with just 8 per cent of them doing so every three months, the director of the Thai Red Cross Society’s National Blood Centre said on Tuesday.

The Thai Red Cross Society is calling on people to donate blood before the upcoming Songkran Festival, when supplies will be needed for life-saving medical services.

The Thai Red Cross head office on Henri Dunant Road will stop accepting blood donations from noon to 4.30pm Friday.

Thai Red Cross Society on Sunday held an event marking World Stem Cell Donor Day to thank stem-cell donors and promote further donations, which can help to treat diseases including leukaemia, aplastic anaemia and thalassaemia.

Red cross sets up screening measures for blood donors to protect supply.