77-year-old Sandy Walker has been giving blood his entire life. Sandy has type O- blood, an uncommon blood type that occurs in approximately 9 per cent of the population according to the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. Sandy is hoping more people will consider booking a time to give blood as …

City of Swan Assets Works Coordinator Jamie Hogan drives to the local donor centre and rolls up his sleeve to donate plasma every fortnight. Within an hour, Jamie has responded to emails on his iPad, caught up on the latest sports and helped countless people who need blood products to …

His zest to save lives motivated Polireddy Uma Maheswara Rao to donate blood as many as 83 times. The 57-year-old from Guntur is a businessman and a yoga teacher. “When I was in my mid-twenties, my relative got seriously ill and required surgery. Some 40 years ago, awareness on blood …

Shabir Hussain Khan was taking an afternoon nap when he heard a commotion outside his house. A friend had been injured playing football and had lost a lot of blood. Khan, without any transport, rushed to the hospital by foot to donate some. It was 4 July 1980. Yesterday the …

Joe Pavlov gave his first pint of blood in 1968 partly because he wanted to impress a girl. Since then, he has gone on to save countless lives through regular blood donations. On May 17, Pavlov donated his 200th pint of blood on at Port Huron Elks Lodge, said Meghan …