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Donating blood on New Year's Day
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WAYS to spend the New Year's Day vary. On that day, many citizens in Shenzhen greeted the new century by donating blood.
Yao Xiaoming, a PhD from the city's ophthalmologic hospital, was the first person to walk into blood donation centre. He gave 400 millimetres of blood. It was his sixth blood donation in two years. His total blood donation amounts to 2,000 millimetres.
After that, Yao presented a letter of consent to donate bone marrow, the first one in the city in the new century.
Then more blood or bone marrow donators showed up. Within half an hour after the station opened, 12 of them arrived. Liu Shuguo, who had just turned 18, timed her first blood giving on the first day of the new century, which she believed was very significant.
As of 6pm on that day, 607 people had given 121,400 millimetres of blood. And according to sources with the blood donation station, during the three-day holiday starting from December 30, 1,331 Shenzheners had donated 266,200 millimetres of blood, setting off an upsurge of blood donation in the city.
With that, the city's severe shortage of O and A blood has been basically alleviated. (John Woo)
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