Wajir County First Lady Rukia Abdinassir is spearheading campaigns to donate blood in the county to build blood stock in the local referral hospital and prevent loss of lives.
The First Lady urged local residents to volunteer to donate blood following a critical shortage at the Wajir County Referral Hospital, putting the lives of many patients in need of urgent transfusions at risk.
The County Government has appealed to members of the public to volunteer at the Wajir Satellite Blood Transfusion Centre, which operates from Monday to Saturday, between 8:00 am and 6:30 pm.
In a statement, the county administration warned that the acute scarcity of blood and blood products is endangering vulnerable groups in the society, especially expectant mothers and Kala-azar patients who rely heavily on timely transfusions.
