 The sponsor of the bill that established the National Blood Service Commission, Honourable Abbas Tajuddin, is confident that the agency will help in the reduction of infections and death from unsafe blood transfusion. The federal amicron from Cardinal States would also want the media to help with publicising the work of the Commission. Emanuele Higiene reports is presented from our studio. The National Blood Service Commission bill was assented by the President Mohammed Bwari on September 2 after it successfully scaled through the rigorous scrutiny of both chambers of the National Assembly. The sponsor of the Bill Honourable Abbas Tajuddin believes it will ensure safe, cheap and affordable blood transfusion across Nigeria as well as reduce infection and deaths related to blood transfusion. He said there is need to build on initiative by producing a revised national blood policy backed by the appropriate legislation and regulation. Most of the states are only making good 102 blood vans. The establishment of the Commission will ensure that not only state governments and big tertiary hospitals will have blood vans by every local government. At least there should be blood vans so that people who are in need will be able to access it easily and cheaply. The Director-General of the Commission, Mr. Omale Joseph Ahmedu, would like the Commission to be properly founded. He assured that the Commission would be instrumental in reducing maternal mortality and explained the dangers in taking unsafe blood. Why do you get that? Globally, Nigeria has a very low and poor health index because they look at the outcome of a woman who they claim is going to be delivered. The number of people who have died out of 1,000 women are going to be about 15%. The major cause of their death after delivery is bleeding. When they deliver, the people bleeding, bleeding and the students don't know to replace them and to resuscitate them, they die. So this is one of the advantage of this Commission. It is important to ensure that there is a massive reduction in the maternal mortality in Nigeria. Both Honorable Tajuddin and Mr. Joseph Ahmedu are calling on the media to join in enlightening the public on the dangers of unsafe blood transfusion. Thank you for watching. We'll see you in the next video.