Apparently there’s this new rule that if you’re leaving the country, they need to know your blood group.
I had received a call from my school about 2 days ago asking me for mine, since I’m going for the Poly Forum. I didn’t know it. It was written down somewhere when I took my thalassaemia test a few years back but the records appear to be lost.
I headed to the polyclinic this morning. They took $10, my identity card and about an inch of my blood in a test-tube. A part of my brain blanked out when I first saw the (very sharp) needle. The other part was trying to figure out why I was letting some stranger jab it into my arm.
I won’t know the results for a week. Not really helpful, since they need it by Monday (or so they say). Not really my fault, they could have told me to get the test earlier.
There wouldn’t be this problem if my blood group had been printed on my identity card.
It used to be a requirement to have our blood group on our identity cards but somehow was phased out by the time I was born. Is it just a sneaky way for the government to save costs? My father thinks that they should make blood group testing optional (cost borne by the patient’s parents) at birth. I don’t know if there is such an option currently but if there isn’t, it would be more helpful than not.
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