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Check the criteria that may affect your eligibility to donate blood.

Note: The final assessment of whether you can give blood will be made by a medical screening professional at the Bloodbank. If you are unsure about your eligibility, call and speak to our staff.

Effective October 2, 2023, donors who were previously not allowed to donate blood due to stay in the United Kingdom, France, Republic of Ireland and other countries in Europe during the affected period can now donate plateletpheresis, plasmapheresis or double red cell unit by apheresis method. To know more about the change in criteria, click here.

Please continue to practice social responsibility. You are advised to postpone your donation at the Bloodbanks or mobile blood drives if you are unwell.

Perform a quick eligibility check to find out if you can donate blood.

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General eligibility criteria

To donate blood, you must:

• Be in general good health.
• Not have had any symptoms of infection e.g. sore throat, cough, runny nose or diarrhoea for at least 1 week.
• Not have had a fever in the last 4 weeks.
• Not have taken antibiotics for the last 7 days. If you have taken antibiotics, wait at least 1 week from the last dose.
• Weigh at least 45 kg.
• Have a haemoglobin level of at least 13.0 g/dl for males and 12.5 g/dl for females.

It may be harmful to you or the recipients if you donate blood when you are not eligible to do so.

If you travelled overseas in the last 4 months, kindly check Travel Overseas (A-Z list) and the section on "Donating blood after overseas Travel."

Important: You should not discontinue or stop taking medications prescribed or recommended by your physicians in order to donate blood.

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Last updated: 31 Dec 2018 Share

Blood donation

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• Make an appointment

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• Blood stock levels

• Types of blood donations

• Blood facts and figures

• Blood transfusion

• Covid-19 vaccine

• Rhesus negative blood

• vCJD restriction

• National guidelines on clinical transfusion

• Donating Blood After Overseas Travel

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Blood donation

• Can I donate

• Make an appointment

• Where to donate

• Blood donation process

• Maintain healthy iron levels

• Blood stock levels

• Types of blood donations

• Blood facts and figures

• Blood transfusion

• Covid-19 vaccine

• Rhesus negative blood

• vCJD restriction

• National guidelines on clinical transfusion

• Donating Blood After Overseas Travel

• E-services