INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Transfusion Organization spokesman has said.In the aforementioned period, blood donation has increased by 12.8 percent compared to the same
period last year, IRNA quoted Abbas Sedaqat saying on Wednesday.He went on to say that the highest blood donation growth was recorded in
North Khorasan province with 35.7 percent, Kordestan province with 33 percent, and Hamedan province with 29 percent growth,
respectively.Also, Tehraners donated 21.5 percent more blood in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year, he
added.The Blood Transfusion Organization has produced about 1,700,000 units of healthy blood products with the highest quality standards to
international scale and one of the influential components in the "blood health index", was estimated at 85 percent in the aforesaid
period.Donors who successfully donate blood twice or more within 12 months are considered continuous donors.Referring to the 4.4 percent
of developed countries.Iran on par with Europe and U.S.According to the reports provided by the World Health Organization, Iran competes
in blood donation indices, even outpacing them in one or two cases.Iran is among the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region as a
reference in the field of blood donation activities.While blood donation in 70 countries still depends on replacement or paid donors, Iran
is the first country in the region that has enjoyed voluntary blood donation by 100 percent since 2007.More than 85 percent of all donated
blood worldwide is used to produce blood products, while the rate is 65 percent in Eastern Mediterranean countries
Iran ranks among the highest-income countries in terms of converting more than 97 percent of the blood donated by people to plasma-derived
medicinal products (PDMP).Only 55 of 171 countries produce PDMP through the fractionation of plasma collected in the reporting country
A total of 90 countries reported that all PDMP are imported, 16 countries reported that no PDMP was used during the reporting period, and 10
countries did not respond to the question, according to WHO.Iran currently has the highest blood donation rate in the Eastern Mediterranean
region, so out of 9.9 million blood donation units in this region, more than two million belongs to Iran.Also, the index of blood donation
is 25 per 1,000 populations, while in the member states of the Eastern Mediterranean region, this number is 14.9 per 1000.Over 2.1 million
Iranians donate blood annually, Bashir Haji-Beigi, the former Blood Transfusion Organization spokesman, said in June.There are currently 178
blood donation centers in the country, with Fars, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, Tehran, and Mazandaran provinces having the largest number of
