Dunedin woman Shania Fox, thankful she's alive today because of a blood donor. Photo / ODTBlood donors are told they are saving lives, and Dunedin woman Shania Fox is the living proof. June 14 is World Blood Donor day and Fox, unsurprisingly, said she could not emphasise enough the importance of being a blood donor. Less than 4 per cent of New Zealanders are blood donors, a proportion NZ Blood very much wants to increase in order to help the 29,000 patients treated with blood or blood products annually. "If I get a cancer now it won't be a secondary cancer, it will be something completely different, although cancer is an ongoing thing.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 12, 2021 21:11 UTC