Val’s Day: MTN Ghana Embarks on “Save a Life” Blood Donation Exercise

In its quest to support the National Blood Service to help restock the blood bank, MTN Ghana has organized a blood donation exercise across the country on Valentine’s Day, which fell on Friday, 14th February, 2025 to collect an estimated 6,100 units of blood.

As people express love in diverse ways, MTN Ghana hopes blood donation on a day of love like 14th February, is a classic means of showing love to mankind.

Dubbed; “Save a Life”, the project has transitioned from being a purely MTN Staff event to include business partners, agencies and members of the general public.

In Central Region, the blood donation exercise took place in six different locations, which include; Ankaful Nursing Training school, Academy of Christ the King Senior High School, Abakrampa Senior High School, Winneba Senior High School, University of Education Winneba and University of Cape Coast.

Speaking to the media in Cape Coast, the Human Resource Manager for MTN at the Southern Ghana, Regina Arkaifie indicated that apart from helping to restock the National blood bank and other regional blood banks, the event sought to encourage voluntary blood donation to stock blood banks across the country.

“We have collected over 29,000 units of blood over the years. Health is one of the three focus areas of the MTN Foundation, as a result, we commit resources to provide access to health care delivery”.

She stressed that the company continued to receive calls from health authorities to support projects aimed at collecting blood.

“Mass Blood donation exercises have proven to be very successful in responding to this very critical issue in health care delivery. As a corporate body that cares for the people in the communities we operate in, we decided to commit our resources to this worthy course”, Madam Arkaifie maintained.

She further pointed out that “the intervention reiterates MTN’s commitment towards making the lives of Ghanaians a whole lot brighter”.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), millions of lives are saved each year through blood transfusions. However, many hospitals and blood banks especially in Ghana still struggle with shortages of blood. In Ghana, the blood transfusion figure falls short of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended minimum of 10 units per 1,000 population, which is essential to meet basic transfusion requirements.

Last year, MTN Ghana raised over 5,000 units of blood to support the national blood bank.

In 2021, the MTN Ghana Foundation constructed and furnished a Blood Bank for the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.