Blood Donations

Blood donation is a kind of medical practice done to deliver blood stably to patients who need blood for transfusions on a daily basis.

Blood cannot be made artificially and cannot be stored for long periods of time. For the sake of those who need blood due to illness or injury, please consider helping to save lives by donating blood.

Blood varies from person to person, even if they have the same blood type. For this reason, the more blood donated by multiple donors to a single patient, the more likely it is that side effects will occur.

More than 90% of the demand from medical institutions is for 400ml, so please consider donating 400ml of blood if you can.

The requirements below are set in order to protect the donator’s health.

• Blood donations by people aged 65 and over are limited to those who have donated blood between the ages of 60 and 64.
• Those who are taking blood pressure medicine and dyslipidemia medicine can also donate blood (some medicines are an exception).
• Please bring something to the reception that shows the name of the medications you are taking, such as a medicine notebook, etc.
• There are other conditions for donating blood. For further details, please see the "Fukushima Red Cross Blood Center" website.

(NOTE) The blood donation bus is a bus that comes to various cities to set up a center where you can donate blood.

(NOTE) In order to check for a blood donation bus nearest you, scroll down on the page or search by city using the pull down menu provided.