World Blood Donor Day 2024

• World Blood Donor Day is celebrated every year on June 14.

• The theme of World Blood Donor Day 2024 is "20 years of celebrating donation: Thank you blood donors!"

• This year, the 20th anniversary of World Blood Donor Day is being celebrated to thank blood donors across the world for their life-saving donations over the years.

• The day is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of Karl Landsteiner, who discovered and classified the ABO blood groups.

• In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) established World Blood Donor Day.