Did You Know About ! | Who has saved more than two million children worl...

Did You Know About ! | Who has saved more than two million children worldwide | James Harrison

"James Harrison", who was born on December 27, 1936, when he was a 14-year-old boy, began after he underwent serious surgery in the chest area, during which he requested that more than 13 liters of Blood so that he can survive, and after this surgery succeeded, and during his nearly 3 months in hospital, I realize that the blood that was transferred to him is what saved his life.

This idea, which caught the head of “Harrison”, who is 14 years old, made him realize that those who donated blood for him were the ones who actually saved his life, and then he made his decision and made a pledge on himself to start donating his blood when he reaches the legal age, which is “18 years old” Indeed, he started since he reached that age, and throughout his life he continued to do that good until he reached his 81st year, in which he could not donate again.

During the year 1954 - when he turned 18 - Harrison began donating blood as he had wanted, and after the first few times he did this, doctors discovered that his blood contained unusually strong and persistent antibodies, which - as we mentioned earlier - It helps to reconcile the mother’s blood with the blood of the fetus that grows in her womb. This made Harrison's desire to continue to donate blood more than previously, and since that time his life has been insured by more than a million dollars, and during the following researches, on the basis of his donations, the immunoglobulin antigen was produced, which during all of these Years have already saved the lives of millions of children.







"Harrison," the eight-year-old Australian man, was called by many around the world the title of "golden arm", and that title deserved well-deserved, not only because of the rare nature of his blood that saved the lives of millions of children and mothers, but also being a record-breaking donor With blood, or more precisely with "blood plasma," since for more than 63 years, he continued to donate once every two weeks, until the number of times that "Harrison" donated blood throughout this period reached 1173 times, which made him enter an encyclopedia Guinness World Records, as the most blood-donated person in the world.

According to a number of international press reports, “Harrison” managed to reach his donation number “1000” during the month of May 2011. The Australian champion had previously commented on his record of the donation, saying: “I can say that it is the only record that I hope To be broken; Because if they did, they donated a thousand donations. ” May 11, 2018, was a historic day, not only in Harrison's life, but also in the history of medicine in general, after he donated for the last time in his life, the time he reached the 1173 donation, the time was The latter is a result of a policy in place in Australia, which prohibits donating blood from people over the age of 81.