By Sun Jiejing
During the 8th "Love Warming Shanghai, Gifts for Life" Indian friends' Free blood donation activity, nearly 100 Indian friends living in Shanghai, including Rahul, President of the Shanghai Indian Association, donated warm blood to send a life gift from India to patients in urgent need of blood treatment.
Mr. Awick, who has lived in Shanghai for more than 30 years, is a senior figure in the free blood donation activity of Indian friends in Shanghai. Since the activity started in 2013, he has been attended it every year as scheduled." “Shanghai has become my second hometown, and I hope I can do my part for Shanghai. Moreover, saving lives has nothing to do with borders."
It is reported that the free blood donation activity of Indian friends "Love Warming Shanghai, Gifts for Life", jointly launched by the Shanghai People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Shanghai Indian Association, the Shanghai Foreign Agency Service Office, Hongkou District Blood Management Center, Shanghai Blood Center, and etc., is an international public welfare project aimed at promoting the friendship between the Chinese and Indian people.
"Although blood donation has nothing to do with borders, some relatively fewer blood types in China are relatively more in foreigners." He Kun, Director of Hongkou District Blood Management Center, introduced, "For example, Rh negative blood types account for 15-20% in Caucasian people in Europe and the United States, about 5% in African Americans, less than 0.4% in Chinese Han people, and about 5.7% in Indian people. Therefore, the implementation of foreign blood donation activities is of great significance to the Rh negative blood security work in Shanghai."