This responsible and civic initiative by Orange Guinea employees is to save lives.
Mamoudou Lamine Thiam, director of human resources at Orange-Guinea declared: “It is a responsible and civic initiative. Beyond the business perspective for which people perceive us, we also have this civic, patriotic responsibility to share these moments including blood donation; which is nevertheless for us, a value of solidarity with our populations.
This has often happened several times.
We have 500 employees, we have additional forces beyond that, in particular, our temporary workers, even our interns. If we reach 80% of our workforce, we will have won the bet.”
Speaking about the criteria, Dr. Fatoumata Binta Silati Diallo, head of the awareness unit at the National Blood Transfusion Center, clarified: “You know, first of all, there are criteria for donating blood. Any healthy person, having a weight greater than 50 kg, and being 18 years old, 60 years old, can donate blood. So, there are prior criteria.
First, we do the medical examination, the autodemogourbine, to see if the donor really has enough blood to save and to donate blood.
And we check the weight, all that, to see if he is not hypo- or hypertensive.”
Met among the donors, Mamadou Mountaga Diallo, sponsorship, events and visibility executive at Orange Guinea, said: “We are here to save lives. Right now, when you go to our hospitals, there are so many people lying down and needing blood. So this is also our way of contributing, we who are healthy to help them. I encourage all colleagues, but also all people who follow this report to come and donate blood since there are people whose lives depend on it.”
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