BLOOD TRANSFUSION.
WELLINGTON ORGANISATION.
Per Press Association,
.WELLINGTON, Jan, 27. . It is hoped that as a result of a small preliminary meeting of the Wellington doctors held, to-day. a central blood transfusion group, properly organised, will soon become ‘ a valuable auxiliary to the medical services of the city,- Voluntary blood donors will be classified and the organisation will make it possible for a. suitable donor to be procured ,at a moment's notice. It will also protect the interests of the donors themselves. Dr. R. 'Campbell Begg presided at the meeting, which had been convened by Rover Leader C. Meachcn, metropolitan secretary of the Wellington headquarters of the Boy Scouts’ Association. The Rovers have for some, time had -a blood transfusion group of their own consisting of some 31) young men.
Jt is expected that when the new central group of donors has beeh organised there will be a night and day .telephone service with a secretary ,'and a committee comprising, among others, 'medical men of standing, in order to . carry out the blood testing and divide the donors into groups Suitable for various •) classes of patients.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 49, 28 January 1932, Page 6
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186BLOOD TRANSFUSION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 49, 28 January 1932, Page 6
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