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RED CROSS
HISTORY/PRINCIPLES/SERVICE
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HISTORY
The International Red
Cross and Red Crescent
Movement is an
international
humanitarian
movement
On February 9, 1863 in
Geneva, Henry Dunant
founded the
"Committee of the Five
The International
Red Cross and
Red Crescent
Movement. In
which all Societies
have equal status
and share equal
responsibilities
and duties in
helping each
other, is
worldwide.
DONATING BLOOD
PATIENTS
NEED YUOR
GIFT OF LIFE
This is one of
the few
things you
can do to
directly save
another
person's life.
Frequent
small
transfusions
of Red Cells
are needed
to provide
life-
sustaining
oxygen for
the immature
lungs of tiny
babies like
DID YOU KNOW?
Every 10 seconds , Females receive 57% of
someone in the United blood transfused; males
States receives a blood receive 47%
A newborn baby has
transfusion about one cup of blood
If you began donating in his or her body
blood at age 17 and An average adult has
donated every 56 days about 10 pints of blood
until you reached 76, in his or her body
About 95% of people
you would have living to the age of 72
donated 48 gallons of will need a blood
blood transfusion at some
For every 2.8 gallons of time in their life, yet
only 5% of the
blood someone has population donates
donated, they have blood
supported the entire China, a nation of over a
nation's blood needs for billion people, uses
1 minute approximately 2 million
pints* of blood a year