Not sure exactly what the procedure is if you want to give blood, but maybe someone here knows ?

August 28, 2020
NBTC seeks more blood donors to save lives amid pandemic
Khann Chanvirak / Khmer Times

The National Blood Transfusion Center (NBTC) is facing shortages of blood amid COVID-19 pandemic as patients still need at least 270 bags of blood per day to save lives.

Speaking during a press conference at the Council of Ministers yesterday, NBTC’s director Sok Po, said COVID-19 crisis has hampered volunteers from coming to the centre to donate their blood, with it needing about 300 bags of blood per day.

“Because of the COVID-19 crisis, we do not hold big events to call for life-saving blood donations. The number of blood donors has dropped by more than 40 percent compared with previous years. By mid-2020, the NBTC received 27,000 bags of blood from almost all of the patients’ families, and got about 200 bags from volunteers,” he said.

Po told Khmer Times that O and A blood types are in high demand because most Cambodians are in these blood groups, with the majority of the patients needing them.

“Phnom Penh is acutely short of blood because it needs 75 to 80 percent of the total blood demand. The big hospitals specialised in treatment and surgery are in Phnom Penh,” he said.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50757771/n ... -pandemic/

I found this contact, but there are probably others, or contact the NBTC directly :

Become a volunteer blood donor to make a life-saving impact during your travels.
Next time you’re travelling through Phnom Penh choose to donate and encourage your friends and family to do the same. If you are based in Phnom Penh, you could also consider hosting a community blood drive with your colleagues.

If you are interested in volunteering as a blood donor in Cambodia, please contact [email protected] for more information.
https://thinkchildsafe.org/positive-voluntourism/

I was reading about what you have wrote above, and of that post (I placed partly on another post) due to losing the full article in the event of the normal power cuts, it shows how Covid-19 can effect other important areas of people's needs, good for you too post the above.

The NBTC have a donation centre every Sat from 9am to 4pm in Aeon one.
No appointment required, turn up, fill out form, check blood group and hemoglobin levels, then give blood.
Followed by cookies, buns, soft drink and bottle of water, plus a promo t-shirt.
In and out in under and hour.
Blood taking kits are hygienic and each one is opened from sealed package in front of you.
Staff are friendly and competent, and manage to put in needle with no more discomfort than a regular blood check draw.

Dr. Ifter wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:35 pm The NBTC have a donation centre every Sat from 9am to 4pm in Aeon one.
No appointment required, turn up, fill out form, check blood group and hemoglobin levels, then give blood.
Followed by cookies, buns, soft drink and bottle of water, plus a promo t-shirt.
In and out in under and hour.
Blood taking kits are hygienic and each one is opened from sealed package in front of you.
Staff are friendly and competent, and manage to put in needle with no more discomfort than a regular blood check draw.

Thanks for that. Sounds painless, and it's so much easier to do the good deed when the time and place are clear.

Old article on the NBTC from 2016. They needed blood then, and still need donors now.
You know, sometimes you wonder what you can do to help things along. This is a good way of helping people. It's free of charge and just needs you to donate your time (and a bit of blood ). Up to you.

New Blood Bank Looks To Stock Up For National Needs
14/10/2016

The National Blood Transfusion Centre (NBTC) of Cambodia had an extra special reason to celebrate this year’s World Blood Donor Day, which marked its 13th edition on 14 June.

Having been confined to an aging structure not designed for large-scale blood bank operations for nearly three decades in Phnom Penh, the NBTC officially opened its new state-of-the-art facility next to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship hospital the same day.

The importance of a well-stocked blood bank in helping save the lives of patients in critical conditions can never be understated, with the NBTC responsible for providing around 65 percent of the Kingdom’s blood requirements.

An initiative from the NBTC and the Ministry of Health, with support from development partners, also helped construct two Provincial Blood Transfusion Centers in Kampong Cham and Siem Reap. Two additional centres in Takeo and Battambang are currently under development.

Blood transfusions are needed for a variety of medical emergencies, including complications during pregnancy, tropical diseases such as malaria or dengue fever, severe trauma from accidents, complex medical and surgical procedures, treating cancer patients, and chronic kidney disease.

Cambodia suffers from an inadequate supply of safe blood, which can only be assured through regular donations by voluntary, unpaid blood donors.

Currently, only 1 out of every 244 Cambodian donates blood. The World Health Organisation recommends that 1 in every 100 of the population need to donate blood every year to meet the national needs of patients.

In Cambodia, 70% of the blood supply still depends on family or replacement donors, while only 30% comes from a voluntary, unpaid donor. These voluntary, unpaid donors are the safest type because statistics show the prevalence of blood-borne infections (eg. HIV, hepatitis and syphilis) is lowest amongst them.

Many more donors are needed to meet the NBTC’s ambitious target of 100% voluntary blood donations by 2020.

You can donate blood between the ages of 18 to 60, with 350ml collected at any one time—enough to save up to three lives. Blood can be donated every three months for a man and every four months for a woman without risk to health.

Events organised by the NBTC aim to highlight stories of people whose lives have been saved through blood donation as a way of motivating regular donors to continue giving blood, and to encourage people in good health who have never given blood to begin doing so, particularly youngsters.

For more information on how to give blood, call 092 998 000 or 093 998 000, or visit the NBTC at Yothapol Khemarak Phoumin Blvd (Street 271, corner of Street 187).
https://www.b2b-cambodia.com/articles/n ... nal-needs/

After the epidemic is over, hopefully they will follow western nations. Monthly blood drives in schools, universities, military barracks, etc. wherever people congregate. And encouraged or ordered to donate.

Blood and blood products are used extensively in the west. As well as organ and tissue donation.

I used to give blood regular nr st 110,the start of Russian Boulevard.They stopped doing it and the trouble I had giving blood after that was amazing,I had no Moto so I walked to different hospitals and was turned away from half a dozen,now there is one at Aeon Mall.Magic.