Today I got a notice about the company blood donor drive. Once or twice a year there is a blood donation day at the office. It's a great way to get blood donated and, like the UK, there is no fee paid to the donors so it really is a civic responsibility for the people of HK. Being a newly minted permanent resident (I picked up my new ID card today) I decided I wanted to donate. I know that, in the past, I was rejected because I had lived in the UK and there is still a general fear about CJD. However, this was before I realised that I an O negative and, therefore, a rather rare and useful blood group. I checked the stats and it is especially rare amongst those of Chinese ethnicity and, according to Wikipedia, just 0.31% of the HK population are this blood group. Surely, there could be an exception.
Um, no.
Amusingly I can't donate in the UK either because the countries in Asia I have travelled to exclude me from giving in the UK too.
Oh well, me and my rare blood type will just have to settle for doing out civic duty in some other way.
How did that happen?
3 years ago
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Don't come to Australia trying to give dirty British blood either! I always gave blood in the UK, in fact I had a little badge to prove it, but I was unceremoniously turned down here, too.
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