{"id":344275,"date":"2025-12-14T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344275\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:07:17","slug":"one-hour-is-just-nothing-toronto-man-honoured-for-500th-blood-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344275\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One hour is just nothing\u2019: Toronto man honoured for 500th blood donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December might be one of the busiest months of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765485674_689_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lot \u2013 managing work, an increased number of family commitments, shopping, and checking your own lists twice.\u00a0 Plus, if you have children there\u2019s a good chance that you are in the throes of seeking out holiday magic whenever and wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p>Making a donation to Canadian Blood Services might not be a high priority, but community development manager Sharon Schaab is hoping you might reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last two weeks of December especially are a very difficult time for us to collect because people get really busy with activities and holidays and maybe just don\u2019t make <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/blood-donation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blood donation<\/a> the priority at that point,\u201d Schaab said. \u201cRight now, the hospitals have what they need, but we need donors coming in every day in order to sustain that a stable supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Over the next five years Canadian Blood Services predicts the need for blood will increase by about 10 percent and the need for immunoglobulins is going to increase by about 50 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765393751_868_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Nazir Jaffer is a regular at a donation centre in Toronto\u2019s east end.<\/p>\n<p>He chooses to donate plasma, something people can do every week. \u201cThe service which I\u2019m doing is helping the sick people. And the sick people they depend on us,\u201d Jaffer said. \u201cThe whole procedure it takes about one hour. So, one hour is just nothing, you know, for the sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This week Jaffer reached an incredible milestone \u2013 500 donations. At the age of 67, he has built in \u201cgiving back\u201d as part of his routine and rarely misses an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means everything. Nazir is such a familiar face in our clinic,\u201d Schaab said. \u201cHe is here without fail every week and he really encourages other people and he\u2019s built such a connection with our team and with all the other donors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11575415\/canada-revenue-agency-digital-paper-changes\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765699637_525_7efe676af352294a30cdac9c1831798ddf700f628a752be555ad363b83ec6cc6.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMailing in your taxes? CRA says changes are coming amid push to digital\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11575044\/canadian-military-member-arrested-charged-foreign-interference\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765699637_645_CAF-member-arrested.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanadian military member arrested, charged in foreign interference probe\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A donation of this size is generally only possible through plasma donations. People can also choose to donate whole blood or platelets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy donating plasma because you can donate once a week. That means you can do fifty-two donations a year. If you\u2019re doing whole blood, men can only donate every two months and women can donate every three months,\u201d Schaab said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jaffer hopes everyone might consider a single donation to help those in need this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter my donation I always approach everybody before I leave. I ask them how many donations you have made. And then they tell me the number. And then I tell them this is my donation so far. They tell me you have such a big number that we can\u2019t even reach you. I said no. Don\u2019t worry about reaching me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Jaffer has a new goal, reaching 1000 donations and encouraging even more people along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December might be one of the busiest months of the year. It\u2019s a lot \u2013 managing work, an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[150292,45,49,48,150291,119712,3302],"class_list":["post-344275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-blood-donation","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-giving-back","tag-holiday-season","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}