{"id":10217,"date":"2025-09-02T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:30:51","slug":"hoima-regional-blood-bank-records-increase-in-blood-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/09\/02\/hoima-regional-blood-bank-records-increase-in-blood-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoima Regional Blood Bank Records Increase in Blood Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hoima Regional Blood Bank is now collecting 2,800 blood units monthly, a significant increase from the previous 600 units collected by the Uganda Blood Transfusion Service&#8217;s Bunyoro branch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The UGX 6.8Billion regional blood bank was established by the Ministry of Health at Kasingo in Hoima City to reduce deaths caused by blood shortages in the Bunyoro Sub region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Joseph Ruyonga, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Health Committee and Member of Parliament for Hoima West Division, on Monday visited the blood bank to oversee its activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He appreciated the government for establishing the facility and urged the people of Bunyoro to donate more blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ruyonga said the government&#8217;s mission is to reduce deaths due to blood shortages to zero and advised the public to be vigilant in preventing diseases that require blood transfusions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The blood bank&#8217;s increased capacity has met the region&#8217;s demand, according to officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige The Hoima Regional Blood Bank is now collecting 2,800 blood units monthly, a significant increase from the previous 600 units collected by the Uganda Blood Transfusion Service&#8217;s Bunyoro branch. The UGX 6.8Billion regional blood bank was established by the Ministry of Health at Kasingo in Hoima City to reduce deaths caused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10226,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions\/10226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}