People of Same Rare Blood Type Get TogetherThey are strangers, but having the same rare blood type has brought them together. A group of 26 people of the Rh negative blood type met Friday for a gathering aimed at developing friendship among them.They went by the same bus from the capital city Nanning of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the port city of Beihai, to attend the gathering organized by the Nanning Municipal Blood Donation Office of the region. People of the Rh negative blood type are very few in China. Only one in a 100 people of the Han nationality, who account for the overwhelming majority of the Chinese population, has the Rh negative blood type. A higher rate of 12.2 percent is found among people from the Miao ethnic group, who are is densely populated in Guangxi and nearby provinces. This puts them under greater danger than people of other common blood types once they need blood transfusion. During Friday's gathering, the first ever held in Guangxi for people of the Rh negative blood type, medical workers gave them advices against possible accidents that may result in a need of blood transfusion for them. Guo Changming, a teacher at the Chemical College of Guangxi University, was among the travelers. He said he registered for the activity willingly. It is necessary to gain knowledge about emergency measures for people with rare blood types. Another participator, Zhang Wenlin, said that now that they know each other, they would help each other in times of need. From 1993 to the present, there have been 14,500 blood donors in Guangxi, but only 69 of them contributed Rh negative blood and only 20 of them can be contacted now. |
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