{"id":166440,"date":"2021-07-16T02:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=166440"},"modified":"2021-07-16T02:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:13:50","slug":"sbtc-urges-eligible-persons-to-donate-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/16\/sbtc-urges-eligible-persons-to-donate-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"SBTC urges eligible persons to donate blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 15 Jul:<\/strong> The State Blood Transfusion Council (SBTC) has requested every eligible person to voluntarily donate blood at any blood centre in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Since science has not yet perfected any substitute for human blood, only humans can save a human being through blood donation. The power to save a fellow human being rests solely on the people with regard to need of blood. If people do not turn up for voluntary blood donations, the blood centres would remain empty,&#8221; the council said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per data available with the council, the total stock\/collection of whole blood and packed red blood cells for the months of March to June were 2,671, with a total of 2,555 transfusions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SBTC lauded the voluntary blood donors for coming out to donate blood during the peak of the pandemic and saving lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 15 Jul: The State Blood Transfusion Council (SBTC) has requested every eligible person to voluntarily donate blood at any blood centre in the state. &#8220;Since science has not yet perfected any substitute for human blood, only humans can save a human being through blood donation. The power to save a fellow human being rests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-166440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}