{"id":1538,"date":"2022-11-21T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:21:07","slug":"first-ladies-to-advocate-blood-donation-across-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/first-ladies-to-advocate-blood-donation-across-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"First ladies to advocate blood donation across Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221121-WA0027-1024x794.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221121-WA0027-1024x794.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221121-WA0027-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221121-WA0027-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221121-WA0027-1200x930.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221121-WA0027.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>by Jeff Kizzilah <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 86% rise in the amount of blood collected, from 100,018 units in June 2020 to 186,239 units in June 2021, benefiting over 214,187 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during an engagement meeting of Kenya Haemophilia and sickle cell partnership meeting in Kenya,the first lady said &#8221; Let&#8217;s learn to donate blood to the vulnerable communities across Kenya,&#8221; she said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First lady association Chairperson Mrs Alamitu Guyo has said the association is working to champion a blood donation campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For us to advocate the blood donation plans,we will have to explain the advantages of blood donation and the trauma including people living with disability in our counties,&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the moment over a million people are affected by hunger and drought at the horn of Africa,&#8221;we ask the government and the county to also support the people with disability,&#8217; Marsabit First lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first contact people will be the care givers, hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeff Kizzilah Almost 86% rise in the amount of blood collected, from 100,018 units&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}