{"id":185622,"date":"2024-11-30T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-lets-make-ghana-attain-100-voluntary-blood-donation-status-health-minister\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:03:42","slug":"ghana-lets-make-ghana-attain-100-voluntary-blood-donation-status-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-lets-make-ghana-attain-100-voluntary-blood-donation-status-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Let&#8217;s Make Ghana Attain 100% Voluntary Blood Donation Status &#8211; Health Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Ghana marked its 24th National Blood Donor Day Tuesday with a call on the citizens to commit to voluntary unpaid blood donation in order to help the country achieve the 100 per cent voluntary blood donation status as required by the World Health Organisation (W.H.O).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">According to the Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, despite various interventions made by Ministry of health (MoH) and the National Blood Service (NBS), only 30-40 per cent of blood donation came from voluntary unpaid blood&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411290384.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana marked its 24th National Blood Donor Day Tuesday with a call on the citizens to commit to voluntary unpaid blood donation in order to help the country achieve the 100 per cent voluntary blood donation status as required by the World Health Organisation (W.H.O). According to the Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,24158,8309,12532,4508,4509,5731,7785,5941,257,254,8912,6655],"class_list":["post-185622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attain","tag-blood","tag-donation","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-lets","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-status","tag-voluntary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}