{"id":195814,"date":"2025-04-10T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-loyal-blood-donors-eligible-for-free-transfusions-for-immediate-family-members-nbsz\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:01:00","slug":"zimbabwe-loyal-blood-donors-eligible-for-free-transfusions-for-immediate-family-members-nbsz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-loyal-blood-donors-eligible-for-free-transfusions-for-immediate-family-members-nbsz\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Loyal Blood Donors Eligible for Free Transfusions for Immediate Family Members &#8211; NBSZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Individuals who have donated blood at least ten times, with their most recent donation within the past year, can have their biological parents, children, or spouse receive free blood in times of medical need, the National Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In a statement Wednesday, NBSZ said it has a Blood Components Beneficiary Policy, which grants free blood transfusions to family members of regular donors who meet the criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">&#8220;We would like to announce that NBSZ has a Blood&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504100502.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals who have donated blood at least ten times, with their most recent donation within the past year, can have their biological parents, children, or spouse receive free blood in times of medical need, the National Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has announced. In a statement Wednesday, NBSZ said it has a Blood Components Beneficiary Policy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8309,12682,9376,5203,6544,20136,4326,51101,257,254,48029,4686,421],"class_list":["post-195814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blood","tag-donors","tag-eligible","tag-family","tag-free","tag-loyal","tag-members","tag-nbsz","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transfusions","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195814","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}