Blood Donation Case Study

Create your Canada

Idea Description

1. State your Bill idea:

Our Bill idea is to make it an obligation to implement an educational workshop about blood donation and Canada’s blood shortage into our school system for Grade.12 students. The lesson does not have to be long, just an hour is more than enough to teach students about the impact that a blood donation can make. Failure on the school’s responsibility to hold one blood donation workshop per year will result in the school paying a fine to the government. The age in which one can donate their blood is 17 years old, thus which is why we should target Grade 12s. If they can learn about donating blood as soon as they can, they can still have a lot of time left in their lives to donate more blood.

These workshops can include medical professionals speaking about the process and crisis as well as stories from people who have donated blood or received blood. Having stories to share is critical as a study by the University of Pennsylvania found that people are more inclined to donate based on feelings rather than logic. In other words, since these workshops are in person, they have the ability to exemplify an emotional response from the students and subsequently increasing their chances of donating. Many people don’t

First of all, the increase in blood donations could become troubling. With more people donating, we would need extra workers and funds to run blood donations. It may be a tedious process to track the schools who have done workshops, but as time passes and the workers get used to tracking, it will become easier. In addition, there will be a lot more contaminated blood that we need to check over. When dealing with more blood, our blood system needs to be more meticulous to ensure no mistakes are made and that we are only accepting pure blood. A mistake in the system can lead to infecting Canadians with viruses such as HIV or Hepatitis