Blood Donation and Medical Examinations at AAU
- Posted on:Oct 12, 2014
The Deanship of Students Affairs at the Abu Dhabi campus of AAU organized an open health day, which included a blood donation drive and medical tests in cooperation with the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City and Perejil Specialty Hospital. A number of specialists were providing medical and nursing consultations, free tests and measuring the ratio of fat, urine and muscle in the body as well as to determine the shelf life of the body and an ideal weight and body mass measurement. The medical teams have also offered advice and counsel to all staff, students and members of the academic and administrative bodies. They have also passed out brochures and gave instructions upon the awareness of health, as well as providing advisory skills and solutions to other medical inquiries.
Professor AbdelHafid Belarbi, AAU Vice President, said that the growing need for donors, particularly in the luminosity of the pursuance of the UAE, has tried to furnish solutions to the chronic diseases of the blood in a blood donation campaign. The campaign is, periodically, organized by the university in collaboration with the Blood Bank in the framework of strengthening the duty of the university to the community in line with its humanitarian role in aid and assistance to the needy patients and the hospitals that need a lot of transfused blood units necessary to back up several types of operations.
On his part, Dr. Iyad Abdul Majeed, Assistant Dean of Students Affairs claimed that the organization of an open health day comes within the activities of the university activities with the aim of spreading health awareness among students. He, therefore, indulged the medical teams with thanks and gratitude to their participations and for providing tips to students. This cooperation was considered a positive measure that will provide integrated medical services for university students, which would contribute to raising health awareness in the students and build use of the consultancy of them for permanent health.
The campaign involved more than 90 students and faculty members at the university and a number of employees. It is noteworthy that this campaign contributed to a collection of over 45 units of transmitting blood.
