Blood donations?

[destroyingangel]

Hey all, hope everyone is okay. I'm in Kansai, so this isn't affecting me, but it's driving me crazy not being able to help from here

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[chocolate_chip]

I often see blood donation trucks in front of Kyoto Station on weekends...

[squeakchan]

I see blood donation signs in Center Gai in Sannomiya a lot, but don't know if they're gonna do any relief stuff.

[peanutxpeanut]

The Japanese Red Cross site in English isn't updated often. http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/index.html#globalNavi

But the Japanese page http://www.jrc.or.jp/ has a Blood Donation map http://www.jrc.or.jp/donation/index.html

They take donations from foreign residents. The requirements are the same as the US
-No serious illnesses
-No medicine, pregnancy, breastfeeding, or fever
-No AIDS/HIV
-No sickle-cell anemia or other blood diseases
-No piercings within 1 year
-No tattoos within 1 year
-No recent vaccinations
-No dental surgery, or dental work that makes you bleed
-No tourists, and limitations depending on what countries you've lived in
-No Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Mad Cow) Disease

[unallersimple]

Yeah it's pretty much the same as in any other country, but with some weird extra requirements. For example no one who has lived in England for over a few months can donate because of Mad Cow Disease. Even if there is absolutely no chance of you having it.

This is a good link and worth checking out:

http://www.mutantfrog.com/2011/03/13/who-can-and-can-not-donate-blood-in-japan/

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