Blood donors in Thailand

The days off around the turn of the year are over again. Also, hopefully an end to “The seven dangerous days” in Thailand. This year again, it was not possible to reduce the number of collisions with serious injuries or fatalities.

An annual large loss not only in immaterial or material matters. The many suffering that many people have suffered with fatal consequences as a result of the collisions, but also the many (seriously) injured, who can no longer participate in society for a long time. The high hospital costs and the loss of income due to not being able to work. What about the many totally destroyed cars, which have not yet been paid off! The monthly mandatory repayments will continue unabated with all the consequences for the affected families, while people no longer own a car!

In a number of places in Thailand, preventive actions have been held to donate blood. There are, however, a number of requirements to counter risks. Have no (hidden) diseases and certainly no HIV! The blood groups cannot be applied one to one, because there are a number of blood groups with their own composition. For example, there are the blood groups A, B, AB, O and the rhesus (D) characteristic: positive or negative. This results in eight blood groups: A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, AB-, O+ and O-.

Curiously enough, there are also differences between the blood groups of Europeans and Asian people. But it would lead too far to go into detail. I once read that, among other things, there would be a difference between the two groups with regard to the flat corpuscles and the round corpuscles, but I could not find anything about it later. Perhaps one of our readers knows more about this?

It is remarkable that in Japan there is a great interest in which blood group someone might have. Even on that basis there is discrimination! That is called there: “Bura Hara!”