BOV employees respond enthusiastically to blood drive

Thirty BOV employees donated blood during the bank’s first blood donation drive for 2022, held  on December 2 in collaboration with the National Blood Transfusion Services.

Tony Micallef, practice nurse – donor liaison for the National Blood Transfusion Service, thanked the BOV management and the employees for their generous response to donating blood regularly.

“Presently, hundreds of patients are being hospitalised and waiting to receive blood transfusions after repeated chemotherapy sessions. Others are being operated by emergency, while others are waiting to undergo planned surgery before Christmas. Because of this, it is important to stress the importance of regular blood donation. The reality is that without adequate blood supplies, cancer patient will have to wait for days to receive the much-needed blood transfusions, while operations have to be cancelled, something that nobody wants to experience! Thanks to such donors, we avoid the bitter consequences of insufficient blood supplies including loss of lives,” Micallef said.

Charles Azzopardi, head of CSR at BOV said. “It is truly heart-warming for us to be able to organise another blood drive for our people, after an...