Donors sing their blood away
DONATE-AND-SING
DONATING one’s blood in Pangasinan will never be a traumatic experience but fun.
Here’s how the fun starts. Before a blood donor extends his/her arm for the blood-letting, the donor will be handed a microphone and a playlist from which the donor will choose his/her favorite song. Then soon as the blood-letting starts, the videoke machine becomes alive with the donor’s singing voice a la Frank Sinatra or Sarah Geronimo!
ThIs is the new tact employed by the Philippine Red Cross Team of Pangasinan to entertain donors while donating blood.
Florame Magalong, PRC chapter administrator, recently posted in her Facebook account how the innovation employed resulted in more donors during the blood donation activity in a mall in Urdaneta City led by Mayor Amadeo “Bobom” Perez IV.
She said the “donate-and-sing” activity as an experiment proved to be successful since their mobile blood donation activities with the new activity was launched last month at PHINMA University of Pangasinan.
“We overshot our target of 200 units of blood by 205 units,” she said referring to that activity in the campus.
Magalong is convinced their new approach not only helps motivate people to join the blood donation campaign because of the fun factor introduced but also quickly relaxes “first-timers” and forgets the anxiety and imagined pain that goes with blood-letting.
There are two microphones so a donor can be joined by a friend or relative accompanying him/her, or if donor is shy, the friends or relatives can do the singing. Many of the chapter staff (medical technologists) and volunteers who sing well can join as well!
During the next mobile blood donation in Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation in San Carlos City, 200 units more were collected to their target of 200.
“We have 6,000 songs contained in our playlist,” she added, and oldies/classic songs are still the most requested.
Tuesday’s mobile blood donation was another success in CB Mall joined in by the city government of Urdaneta.
Magalong said a donor would have to undergo physical and medical tests first before allowing her or him to donate blood. (Tita Roces)
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