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Contents
Front cover
Did you know we have
an international team?
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Blood Service celebrates
a successful NBDW
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Students thanked for
saving lives
5 A, B, Oh
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Did you know we have
an international team?
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Club Red leaderboard
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Gift of life for thousands
of Aussie babies
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Alison’s story
10 Recessive and dominant
blood types – what blood type will my baby inherit?
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A letter of thanks
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Lauren Small and father, Brad, in front of her portrait on the wall of the new
Strathpine Donor Centre.
QLD
Strathpine has
a new donor centre
Three-year-old Lauren Small, who underwent
two heart surgeries in her first few weeks of
life and received countless blood transfusions,
was the guest of honour when Queensland’s
new Strathpine Donor Centre opened on 17 July.
The centre features open plan modern
facilities, a welcoming reception and
refreshment area, more donor chairs
and interview rooms, as well as plenty
of free parking.
The state-of-the-art $1.5 million facility in
Brisbane’s northern suburbs is across the road
from the former premises, which had been
operating for 19 years.
The centre collects whole blood and plasma
and will also have the capacity to collect
platelets in the future.
The new, larger centre has been built to
accommodate the future growth in demand
for blood and blood products to ensure patients
who need life-saving transfusions will
receive them.
It is equipped to take more than 10,000
blood and plasma donations over the next
12 months.
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400 for Philip
Philip has incorporated giving blood into his
regular routine.
Unley man, Philip Smith, was one of five South
Australians recognised in 2014 for rolling up his
sleeves more than 400 times.
Every fortnight, like clockwork, Philip meets a friend
at the Marion Blood Donor Centre where they donate
plasma together, have a good chat and enjoy some
post donation snacks.
Over the past 42 years he has donated blood 406
times – enough blood to fill a bathtub!
“So many different people rely on blood,” Philip said.
“You never know, you may
even need it yourself one day.”
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Philip, together with 400 other milestone donors
and special guests, attended the South Australia’s
National Blood Donor Week donor recognition
ceremony where they were recognised for their
amazing, life-saving contributions.
Philip’s donations alone have saved more than
1,200 lives. The Blood Service and, importantly, the
patients needing blood are eternally grateful.
Philip and Penny at
the Marion Blood
Donor Centre.
Blood Service celebrates a successful NBDW
Thank you for helping us to celebrate National Blood Donor Week
(NBDW).
Over the week from 27 July to 2 August, we were delighted to recognise nearly
2,400 donors at 43 ceremonies across Australia to celebrate and thank our
milestone, bone marrow and Anti-D donors who have made an amazing
difference in the lives of so many Australians. In total, we welcomed over
4,000 attendees.
In Brisbane, Olympic gold medallist and swimming champion, Libby Trickett,
was on hand to personally thank our donors while attendees in Adelaide were
delighted to catch a glimpse of the redeveloped Adelaide Oval. At the Regent
Theatre in Melbourne, a school girls’ choir entertained the guests, and in
New South Wales, donors visiting Dolphin Marine Magic at the Coffs Harbour
holiday park were treated to a kiss by Abby the seal!
Each and every day we see the true Australian heroes
that give up their time to visit our donor centres and
NBDW is such an important week for us as we get
the opportunity to publicly demonstrate our sincere
appreciation. It’s a time when we can show
how important every single donation is to us, and to
recognise those donors have gone above and beyond, on behalf
of the Australian patients that receive these life-saving gifts.
To all of our donors, thank you once again
- you’re such amazing people.
Olympic gold medallist, Libby Trickett, with donor, Andrew Georgiou, who was celebrating
his incredible 500th donation at Brisbane’s National Blood Donor Week celebration.
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Funniest thing overheard at a donor centre
Kim Gaetjens
Donor: I hate needles. I always look away and close
my eyes.
Phlebologist: So do I.
Damien Bowden
Two guys were competing as to who could fill the
blood bag in the least amount of time.
Guy one: Yes! I filled up the donor bag first! Beat
you by 52 seconds!
Nurse: That isn’t necessarily a good thing. If you
were both stabbed in an alley way, you would bleed
out and die before your friend.
Pamela Moore
I took a guy to give blood on a third date. The nurse
said, “This is where she brings all her dates - she’s
actually a vampire.”
Mitch Yarwood
The nurse comes over and asks, “Are you feeling
ok?” to which I whisper, “I see dead people.”
Face was priceless. At least she remembers
me now haha.
John Law
Had a blood bank female nurse ask me yesterday,
after having difficulty getting a steady blood flow,
“Do you have another vein?” I replied, “I hope so. Is
that a trick question?”
Ben N Amanda McClatchie
When I was giving plasma, my eight-year-old
asked (very loudly), “Dad, how are you peeing in
that bag?” (the colour is actually very similar) - I
assured him that I couldn’t pee out of my elbow,
and that it was, in fact, plasma.
Craig Hensley
When they ask, “Which arm?” I have been known
to reply, “Yours!”
Sue Hancock
Quote from a nurse, with a smile: “I am a nurse,
I will take care of you, I will wipe your bum if
necessary but I won’t retrieve your phone from your
bra.” In the context of the one armed me just about
to have the needle inserted, and remembering that
I still have my phone in my bra. Priceless!
Banking on a change after nearly 20 years
After nearly 20 years with the Blood Service,
Horsham Donor Centre Manager, Jill Cooper has
collected blood for the last time.
Speaking about her decision to move on,
Ms Cooper explained it was time for a change
after two decades at the centre.
“I’m really looking forward to embarking on the
next stage of my career,” Jill said.
“I’m not sure what that’s going to entail,
however, the first thing I plan on doing, and
what I’m looking forward to the most, is
spending plenty of time with my adorable
grandchildren and also indulging in some travel!
“Thanks to all the great staff for your
professionalism, enthusiasm and support over
the years – you have made it a pleasure to come
to work each week.
“And finally, thank you to all the wonderful
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NSW/ACT
Brontë Amos
“I could seriously go a two minute noodle sandwich
right now,” said by a pregnant Red Cross employee.
Simon Schlegel
“Wow, your vein is so large we could drive a truck
through it.” Two weeks later with a different nurse,
“Wow, there is so much scar tissue here I am going
to have to really drive this sucker home.”
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donors who have supported the Blood Service
during this time.”
Speaking about Ms Cooper’s resignation,
the Blood Service’s Donor Services Manager,
Maureen Bower, said the organisation was sad
to see her go.
“I would like to take this opportunity to
acknowledge and thank Jill on behalf of the
Blood Service and our blood donors for all her
hard work over the last 20 years,” Maureen said.
“During her time at the Horsham Donor
Centre, Jill played a pivotal role in recruiting
and developing the Horsham team, which
successfully saw the introduction of apheresis
plasma collection to the centre in 2013.
“Jill’s excited about her next adventure and
while all of us here at the Blood Service are sad
to see her go, we wish her all the best.”
Jill Cooper has left the Blood Service after 20
years of service at the Horsham Donor Centre.
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A, B,Oh?
The complexity of your blood type goes much further than just being an A, B, AB or an O.
In Australia we have eight primary blood groups: A positive, A negative, B positive, B negative,
AB positive, AB negative, O positive and O negative.
There are rare and common types and their prevalence varies in populations across the world.
Blood types explained
The ABO typing system was first discovered by
Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner in the 1900s.
Type C was later re-named type O, from the German immune system will attack the foreign cells
word ‘Ohne,’ which means ‘without’ or ‘zero,’
and they could have a severe, even fatal reaction.
because this was the type without any antigens.
This is why blood typing is so important.
By mixing blood cells together he found that certain
blood types clumped together and reacted and
Forty years later the Rhesus (Rh) factor – the
others did not.
presence of the D antigen – was discovered.
People with the D antigen have Rh positive blood
These different types are essentially red cells with
and those without have Rh negative blood.
different markers on their surface – originally
known as types A, B, and C. A and B refer to
Our bodies are designed to protect ourselves from
different sugars (antigens) on the surface of the red foreign antigens. This means if a patient has blood
cells. C cells didn’t have either sugar.
type A and is given blood type B, their body’s
Blood types in Australia
Here in Australia, O and A are the most common
blood types at 49 and 38 per cent respectively.
B is less common at 10 per cent and just 3 per
cent of Australians have AB blood.
• Type AB is the rarest blood type, found in
10 per cent of the population in Japan, Korea
and China but rarer in other regions.
O
A
B
B
B
AB
English
According to findings by the National Centre for
Biotechnology Information (Dean, L 2005):
• Type B is rare in Europe and accounts
for around 10 per cent of their population.
It is common in Asia and around 25 per cent
of the Chinese population have type B blood, and
A
O
Worldwide
• Type A is most common in Central and
Eastern Europe. Nearly half the population
in Denmark, Norway and Austria have this
blood type
O negative blood has none of the three antigens
meaning this blood can be transfused to anyone,
however, O negative people can only receive
O negative blood.
A
O
Interestingly, the prevalence of these types varies
across the globe.
• Type O is the most common in populations
around the world, including the USA
and Western Europe. Among indigenous
populations of Central and South America the
prevalence of O approaches 100 per cent. It is
also very high among Indigenous Australians
People with AB positive blood have every antigen:
A, B and Rh and can therefore receive any type
of blood.
AB
AB
SE Asians (Laos)
A
A
Indians
O
O
A
B
O
AB
Africans (Zimbabwe)
Native Americans
B
Australian Aborigines
* Sourced from blood.co.uk/about-blood/blood-around-the-world
The majority of the worldwide population (including
83 per cent of the Australian population) have
Rh positive blood and it’s more common in
some populations. Among Native Americans and
Indigenous Australians it’s believed it could be as
high as 99 to 100 per cent.
The variation in blood types between countries
is due to evolution. As Australia’s population
evolves it’s important our panel of blood donors
also diversifies to reflect the blood types of our
multicultural population.
The need for blood does not discriminate and we
need blood of all types and ethnicities to save lives
of all patients, no matter where
you were born, where you are
from or where you live.
SA/NT
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Did you know we have
an international team?
Everyone knows the Blood Service is here to collect
blood. But how much do they know about what
happens behind the scenes at the Blood Service?
The Blood Service employs 3,800 people across
Australia, many of whom don’t work in donor
centres or laboratories. So what do the staff who
don’t work directly with blood do from day to day?
There is one small but talented team in Western
Australia who is dedicated to working with blood
services from around the globe.
Our International Services team plays a key role in
supporting three international networks of blood
services – the Alliance of Blood Operators, the
Asia Pacific Blood Network and the Global Advisory
Panel. These networks facilitate information
sharing, benchmarking and identification of
best practices, with the view to enable member
blood services and improve the way they work.
By participating in international networks, the
Blood Service learns about new blood processes
and technologies being developed around the
world and applies these ideas to its own activities,
where strategically and operationally beneficial.
In addition to providing the secretariat for all three
of these networks, the International Services team
provides an important link between the Blood
Service and other blood operators to facilitate
these activities.
But that’s not all the International Services team
does. They also run many behind-the-scenes
humanitarian projects that change the lives
of people in developing countries.
One such program is the Cambodia Blood Safety
Project, which aims to improve the safety and
sufficiency of the blood supply for patients in
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Cambodia through initiatives such as increasing
the number of voluntary blood donors (the safest
type of blood donor), and improving the safety
of blood supply by preventing the spread of lifethreatening, blood transmissible diseases like HIV.
Australia is fortunate to be one of only 60 countries
in the world whose donated blood is 100 per cent
voluntary. Before our team started working with
Cambodia in 2011, less than 28 per cent of their
donated blood was given voluntarily. They relied
heavily on paid donations and family members
donating to replace the blood a loved one has
used. At the end of 2013, voluntary donations in
Cambodia reached 35 per cent.
The Cambodia National Blood Transfusion
Service collected just 50,000 blood donations
last year from a population of 15 million people.
Comparatively, Australia collects 500,000 blood
donations a year from a population of 23 million.
NATIONAL
To date, the team has:
• Created new guidelines for the service
to follow when collecting blood
• Improved the safety of donated blood by assisting with donor screening processes and blood testing
• Expanded the collection of blood
to regional provinces
• Trained over 100 doctors and nurses
on how and when to give a patient
a blood transfusion
• Taught Cambodian staff how to promote blood donation to increase the number
of voluntary donors, and
•
Most excitingly, produced the first
batch of platelets and fresh frozen plasma in regional centre, Kampong Cham, extending the quality of care
to the provinces.
Of those 50,000 blood donations collected last
year in Cambodia, 8.41 per cent tested positive for
a transfusion transmissible infection. This includes
HIV, hepatitis and syphilis. In 2014, that number
There is still plenty of work to be done in 2014, but
had dropped to 6.91 per cent and continues
with the help from the Blood Service’s International
to decline.
Services team and its consultants, the old days of
Plasma and platelets were almost unheard of
blood donation in Cambodia are a thing of the past.
- without the skill or the means to produce the
products, the primary focus was on whole
blood collections.
Since the project started, our team and expert
Blood Service consultants have been working on
the ground in Cambodia, helping to improve their
national blood service.
Linda Nicolo from the Blood Service with
Cambodian scientists after producing platelets.
SPRING 2014
2014 National Corporate Blood
Challenge leader board*
CLUB RED
Well done to the top groups on the leader board. To find
out how your group is going or to find out more about
our Club Red program visit donateblood.com/clubred
*Results as at 24 September 2014.
Category
Small
Medium
Large
Highest number donations
Company
Essential Energy
Department of Immigration and
Border Protection (AUS)
Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
Highest percentage of employee participation
Donations
825
584
Lives saved
2,475
1,752
Company
Percentage
Water Corporation
25%
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank 11%
Lives saved
1,512
2,109
2,582
7,746
Australian Taxation Office
(ATO)
7,746
10%
Victoria takes the challenge
Local donors are making their donations count even
more by taking part in exciting blood challenges.
“One-in-three Australians will need blood at some
time in their lives,” Mr Wells said.
From Emergency Service workers to dental students,
donors from a range of organisations are taking part
in these exciting initiatives, which aim to get more
donors involved in saving lives.
“Best of luck to all the emergency services agencies,
and of course the real winners are the many
Victorians who will benefit from these life-saving
donations. Giving blood only takes around an hour
of your time and donors can give at donor centres
across Melbourne and in regional areas.”
The Emergency Services challenge had support
from the top with Minister for Police and Emergency
Services and Bushfire Response, Kim Wells, rolling
up his sleeves as part of the challenge.
The Emergency Services challenge ran throughout
June and July and encouraged emergency services
personnel from Victoria Police, MFB, CFA and SES to
donate blood.
Mr Wells commended Victoria’s Emergency Service
personnel for taking part.
“Our emergency services personnel are already
in the business of saving lives on a daily basis,”
Mr Wells said.
“I hope everyone taking part in the challenge will
inspire and encourage others to donate blood to
ensure supply can meet demand.”
Mr Wells said the Blood Service provided lifesaving blood and blood products to patients in
hospitals all around the nation.
Mr Wells said with many centres open early in the
morning and on the weekends there’s no shortage of
opportunities to make a contribution.
“In addition to helping vulnerable Victorians injured
in road trauma accidents or those needing blood
during surgery, donated blood helps treat people
with cancer, premature babies, and pregnant
women,” Mr Wells said.
The Challenge which ran from 28 April to 30 May
saw dental students from across the country
compete to see who could donate the most blood.
Latrobe University Bendigo coordinator, Sarah
Muller, was thrilled with the result.
“It has been amazing to find such enthusiasm
within the student body, to donate for a great
cause,” she said.
“There has even been talk of a regular blood
donation study group starting up!
“All of the first-time donors loved the experience
and will definitely be back.”
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“Plasma is used to treat burns, liver and kidney
diseases and is also used to make immunoglobulin
products to treat patients with antibody deficiencies
and other immune system disorders.
“It really is the gift of life,” Mr Wells said.
In other challenge news, Latrobe University has
taken out top place in the Australian Dental
Students’ Association (ADSA) Blood Challenge.
Minister Wells rolls up his sleeves
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Gift of life for thousands of Aussie babies
Two remarkable Australian blood donors have
made their 800th donation together at Martin
Place Donor Centre.
nsw/act
Thousands of Aussie mums have a little bit of
Rob Allaburton and Don Mills’ blood flowing
through their veins, and hundreds of babies are
alive thanks to their generous donations.
Rob and Don’s blood contains rare antibodies
used to make life-saving injections for mothers
whose blood is at risk of attacking their unborn
baby. They are part of a select group of 200
donors who are on the Blood Service’s Anti-D
program.
Rob and Don started donating blood in 1968
and were recruited to the RH Project - a
medical breakthrough to prevent the often fatal
haemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN).
The disease results from an incompatibility
between a mother and her baby’s blood, and
prior to the Anti-D, the disease was killing
hundreds of Australian babies every year.
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Rob and Don have saved hundreds of babies’ lives through donating blood.
Donor couple saves thousands
Graham and Glenda Goddard have ‘saving lives’
running though their veins.
Through 30 years of work as an Ambulance
Rescue Officer, Graham has seen the
importance of blood first-hand.
“I saw blood save lives every day. I was already
a donor but it strengthened my resolve,” he said.
“It’s not just used in emergency situations.
You also see blood help people who are anaemic,
surgical patients and people undergoing
chemotherapy.”
Graham Goddard celebrating his 500th donation.
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Graham and Glenda have been married for 41
years and have been donating together, as often
as every fortnight, throughout their long union.
Glenda also has a personal reason for rolling
up her sleeves. In 1973 she was involved in a
serious car accident and required life-saving
blood. As a way of saying thanks, Glenda
has now rolled up her sleeves 415 times and
has volunteered at the Blood Service helping
in refreshments.
“Every one that can donate, should,” she said.
Graham recently celebrated his 500th donation
at the Launceston Donor Centre.
He and Glenda have together donated enough
blood to help save 2,745 lives.
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Alison’s story
My name is Alison and I’m from Eudunda in the Barossa Valley.
I’m sharing my story with you, a blood donor, to let you know just
how much your donation means.
I was having a great pregnancy and everything was going well.
My only complaint was that my baby, little Jimmy, seemed to have
his foot stuck under my rib cage, making it a little uncomfortable.
On the Friday night five weeks before I was due to have our first
child, my husband Ben took me to the Kapunda Hospital with
severe pains in the right side of my chest.
While at hospital I felt a ‘pop’ in my rib cage and I felt
immediate relief. I apologised to the doctors for calling them
in late on a Friday night. Luckily they kept me in overnight.
My body shut down my blood supply to all parts of my body
excluding my heart and brain. My precious baby boy little Jimmy
was not getting any blood supply and gave his life to save mine.
After receiving two units of blood at Kapunda I was air-lifted to
Adelaide and immediately rushed to emergency surgery. I had lost
a lot of blood. In total I received more than 20 units.
As a child I grew up watching my parents donate blood when the
blood bank bus visited our rural community. As soon as I was old
enough, I was keen to donate as well. I have donated in the past
and have felt wonderful knowing that I did something so little to
help others. Little did I know that one day so many others would
return the favour.
I continue to recover from my surgery and miss my precious boy
It turns out when I felt ‘the pop’ it was actually my liver rupturing. little Jimmy Bryan Schutz but feel truly blessed to be alive.
Later I was told that I suffered from severe pre-eclampsia and
Thank you for donating blood.
HELLP syndrome. It’s highly unusual that I had no symptoms
previously and it’s extremely rare for a liver to burst.
-Alison Schutz
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Alison and her husband Ben.
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qld
There is a dominant blood type, which works in a similar way to dominant genes for eye colour.
Recessive and dominant blood types
What blood type will my baby inherit?
Many people would remember reading about
recessive and dominant genes, perhaps from
high school biology class. The genes for blue eyes
are recessive and the genes for brown eyes are
dominant, which is why two brown-eyed parents
are more likely to have a brown-eyed child than
a blue-eyed child, although the latter is still
a possibility.
a blood type which is made up of at least two
contributions. The ABO gene is responsible for the
A, B, O and AB blood group, and the Rh(D) gene is
responsible for the positive or negative factor.
The Rh(D) factor is the name given to a blood
group protein, Rh(D), which is found on red blood
cells. Some people have this protein on their red
blood cells and others do not.
This brings up an interesting question. Is there
such a thing as a dominant blood type or a
recessive blood type? The answer is yes, and
the way it works is similar to the way dominant
and recessive genes for eye colour works – it’s
just a little more complicated. Each person has
So how do babies inherit their blood type from
their mothers and fathers? Blood Service Head
of Transfusion Sciences, Professor Robert
Flower, explained that “both group O and Rh (D)
negative are recessive and all other types are codominant”. This means that recessive traits can
Genes
AA
Blood Type A
AO
A
AB BO
AB B
BB
B
OO
O
Considering that both A and B type are dominant
over O, the mother in the above example is an
A blood type but is a carrier for O (she is AO).
The father has an O blood type with two copies of
the O gene (OO). The father will always pass an
O to his child (100 per cent probability or 1.0 in
decimals) but the mother will pass an A half the
time (50 per cent or 0.5) and an O the other half
of the time (50 per cent or 0.5). The O Negative
baby got an O from both mum and dad (OO), and
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is therefore an O blood type. To work out the
chances of this happening, multiply 1.0x0.5 = 0.5
or 50 per cent
In terms of the Rh(D) gene, positive is dominant
over negative so these are the possible genes and
their blood types:
Genes
Blood Type
+/+
Positive
+/-/Positive Negative
Both mother and father have positive blood types
but carry a hidden negative version of the gene.
Each parent has a 50 per cent (0.5) chance of
be carried in your DNA without your knowledge
while dominant traits are expressed.
Considering this, is it possible, for instance, for
a baby to have O negative blood if the father has
O positive blood and the mother has A positive
blood? The answer is yes – if the mother is a
carrier for blood type O and the father is an Rh(D)
negative carrier. In this example, the chance of
having a baby with an O negative blood type is
one in eight, as shown below.
The ABO gene comes in three versions (A,B and
0) and we have two copies of the ABO gene. This
means there are six genetic combinations which
result in the following blood types:
passing a negative version of the gene down to
the baby, who ends up with Rh(D) negative blood
type. The chances of that happening can be
worked out by multiplying 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.25 or 25
per cent
To work out how likely it is for the mother and
father to have a baby with an O Negative blood
type, simply multiply the chances for an O by
the chances for a negative (0.5x0.25 = 0.125
or 12.5 per cent or a one in eight chance).
Example summarised from: genetics.thetech.org/
ask-a-geneticist/parent-o-parents-o-child
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A letter of thanks
The incredible work of the Transplantation Services team has been praised by
the mother of a young man who recently underwent his second kidney transplant.
In a letter addressed to the team, the mother acknowledged the many hours
spent behind the scenes to identify antibody levels and potential cross-matches.
The 17-year-old boy, who faces several other health challenges, had already
undergone a kidney transplant a number of years earlier. His kidney was
no longer responding and he was undergoing dialysis while he waited for a
compatible match.
“The boy had been on the waiting list for quite some time as his body had made
a lot of antibodies following his first kidney transplant. These antibodies made it
very difficult for another donor to be compatible,” explains Rhonda Holdsworth,
National Laboratory Manager, Transplantation Services.
WA
Lexi Margaritis with her parents, Angelo and Rachel, and WA Senator, Linda
Reynolds, open the new Fremantle Blood Donor Centre.
New donor centre for WA donors
A suitable kidney was finally found through the Australian Paired Kidney
Exchange, an initiative coordinated by the Transplantation Services team
in the Blood Service to increase the options for living kidney donation.
Over 11,000 donations will be collected and up to 33,000 lives
will be saved every year with the blood donated at Western
Australia’s (WA) newest blood donor centre in Fremantle.
“Thanks to the work done in our labs and the paired kidney exchange program
a match was found and the boy was finally able to undergo surgery.
Without their work the transplant would not have been possible,” said Rhonda.
The new $2 million centre was officially opened by Western
Australia’s (WA) new Senator, Linda Reynolds, and a Perth blood
recipient, six-year-old Lexi Margaritis in a special opening ceremony
in August.
National
Lexi, who received 30 transfusions of blood products during
treatment for a rare blood disorder as a six-month-old, is one of the
faces of the brand new centre. A giant-sized photo of her playing in
the sand at Perth’s famous Cottesloe Beach covers the front window
and welcomes donors as they arrive for their blood donation.
Formally located within hospital grounds at Fremantle Hospital, the
new Fremantle Blood Donor Centre has relocated five minutes away
to 47 Douro Road in South Fremantle.
WA Blood Service Manager, Craig Rutherford said with
a steady increase of donors and the recent expansion to start
collecting platelet donations, Fremantle had outgrown its old centre.
“Our new facility is twice the size of our old centre, and boasts larger
donation and refreshment areas to make our donors’ blood donation
experience more enjoyable. It also has the capacity to expand further
as demand for blood products continues to grow,” he said.
“We are still within the heart of the City of Fremantle, and at our
new location there are plenty of shops and food outlets nearby, and
free parking is readily available for all of our donors.
“To make donating even easier for donors, our new donor centre
has extended its opening hours to include more late night and
Sunday appointments.”
The Blood Services Transplantation Services team and the paired kidney
exchange program found a kidney match to save this young boys life.
Mr Rutherford thanked Fremantle Hospital for their support and
hospitality throughout the many decades the donor centre had
been there.
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1. Fatherly
1. Stabs with needle
5. Inkling
2. Knowledge tests
7. Early Peruvian
3. ... & crannies
8. Public addresses
4. Accountable
9. US wheat state
5. Local sayings
12. Spotty disease
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6. Valuable qualities
15. Connected by blood
10. ... & void
19. Unique model (3-3)
11. Lie adjacent to
21. Japanese suicide (4-4)
12. Gooey soil
22. Hot drink dispensers
13. Similar
23. Leer
14. Luxury hire car
24. Eradicate (5,3)
15. All right
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16. Make fizzy
17. Swirls
18. Compensate for
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19. Spirit contact board
20. Furnish with supplies
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Sudoku
Fill the grid so every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9
Solutions
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