The Global Blood Fund, which has been assisting Kenya in blood donation initiatives, wants the country to seek ways of ending dependency on learning institutions.
The organisation's executive director Gavin Evans told the Sunday Nation via email that, from his observation in African countries they have worked with, 60 to 70 per cent of blood in the banks is typically from high schools.
With a population of nearly 50 million, the World Health Organization recommends that a country of Kenya's standard needs about one million units of blood annually.
Recognising the need for additional investment in the national blood bank, the government has allocated Sh1 billion and employed an additional 22 staff to improve the level of services and expand blood collection to all sites in the country.
In March, the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) revealed that 1,000 units of blood, one-third of the total collected between January and March, was disposed of because it expired before being tested.
