During the 2005 World Health Assembly session in Geneva June 14 was declared as World Blood Donor Day. On that particular day in 1868 the Austrian doctor Karl Landsteiner was born, who in 1930 received Nobel Prize for discovering the human blood groups. The word "donor" originated from the Latin word "donare" - "present". In case of blood donors the present is most frequently life itself. The first person to person by blood transfusion took place in England in 1819.
On the occasion of World Blood Donor Day we present the Armenian statistics in the form of infographics.
