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香港政府
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Monday, April 23, 1973
OVER $1 MILLION SUBVENTION TO BLOOD BANK
New Blood Collecting Vehicle For Red Cross
The Government will subvent over $1.3 million to the Hong Kong
Red Cross for operating the Blood Bank this year.
This represents an increase of $622,900 compared with last year's
subvention and is to meet additional expenses for increased activities to
encourage donations of blood.
A spokesman for the Red Cross, Mrs. R. Fraiser, said that they
had ordered from Germany a blood collecting vehicle which would be delivered
next month to augment the services of the Mobile Blood Collection Unit.
The Lotteries Fund has made a capital grant of $371,000 to the Red
Cross for the vehicle.
The vehicle will be specially equipped and will have a blood
refrigerator capable of storing 250 units at a time. There will be a blood
donation cabin with four beds, a refreshment ares and a toilet.
hour.
Under normal conditions, it can collect blood from 18 people in an
Mrs. Fraiser described the vehicle as a well-equipped blood collection
centre in miniature.
/The vehicle
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