Busadee Suwannarat, President of the Phuket Red Cross, joined a donation drive at Phuket Rajabhat University yesterday (Oct 17), where students of all years turned out to donate blood.
During the festival, the Red Cross Society is advocating that people “Keep the precepts, donate blood, make merit”.
Mobile blood donation clinics are to be set up as follows:
Wednesday, Oct 18
12:00-18:00 Lotus’s Thalang (in front of Bata)
12:00-18:00 Lotus’s Phuket, on the bypass road (in front of Giordano)
Friday, Oct 20
12:00-18:00 Lotus’s Thalang (in front of Bata)
12:00-18:00 Central Floresta (Temporary Blood Donation Unit, Parking Floor G)
Tuesday, Oct 24
12:00-18:00 Lotus’s Thalang (in front of Bata)
Thursday, Oct 26
12:00-18:00 Lotus’s Thalang (in front of Bata)
13:00-16:00 Siam Makro Phuket branch
Saturday, Oct 28
14:00-18:00 12:00-18:00 Lotus’s Phuket, on the bypass road (in front of Giordano)
Tuesday, Oct 31
10:00-1600 Phuket Airport (Office building, 1st floor)
People can also donate blood directly at the Phuket Red Cross Office in Phuket Town:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday – 8:30am to 4:30pm;
Tuesday, Thursday – 8:30am to 8pm;
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays – 9am to 3pm;
Telephones – 076-251178 ext. 2 or 081-9588854.
Alternatively, people can also donate blood at the Blood Bank on the 4th floor of Vachira Phuket Hospital located on Yaowarat Rd in Phuket Town:
Monday to Friday – 8:30am to 8pm;
Weekends and holidays – 8:30am to 3pm;
Telephone – 076-361234 ext 1287.
All blood types are welcome, though Rh-Negative blood is especially often in critical need.