Olympics: Beijing to recruit 100,000 volunteer blood donors for Games
25/4/2008 18:04
Beijing is to recruit 100,000 volunteer blood donors for the Olympic
Games, the municipal blood donation office said today.
Office director Liu
Jiang said the recruitment program started in April and would end by the end of
July. The office aimed to recruit a half of the target by the end of next
month.
The host city also plans to establish a bank of rare blood types with
1,000 persons and a 10,000-people blood platelet bank for the Games.
The
100,000 volunteer donor, equivalent to 0.65 percent of the population of
permanent residents, come from all the 18 districts and counties of the city,
with Chaoyang District to contribute 18,000 donors, exceeding any other district
and county.
Xinhua
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