{"id":3205,"date":"2026-01-20T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/mcdonalds-malaysia-supports-the-governments-call-for-blood-donation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:44:17","slug":"mcdonalds-malaysia-supports-the-governments-call-for-blood-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/mcdonalds-malaysia-supports-the-governments-call-for-blood-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Malaysia supports the government\u2019s call for blood donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PETALING JAYA, 14 August 2020<\/strong> \u2013 McDonald\u2019s Malaysia, in continuous support of the government\u2019s call to Malaysians to donate blood regularly, organised a Blood Donation Day on 13 and 14 August 2020. Held annually in collaboration with the National Blood Centre (NBC) under the Ministry of Health (MOH), the blood donation drive was opened to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, the Blood Donation Day has been well-received and supported by the general public and staff of McDonald\u2019s Malaysia. The close collaboration between McDonald\u2019s Malaysia and NBC began four years ago. In line with the government\u2019s call, McDonald\u2019s Malaysia is keen to play an active role in creating continuous awareness among the community on the importance of blood donation. We targeted for 300 donors this year, and we are pleased to say that we surpassed our target by a mile,\u201d said Azmir Jaafar, Managing Director and Local Operating Partner, McDonald\u2019s Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Blood Donation Day held at the headquarters of McDonald\u2019s Malaysia saw a turnout of more than 500 donors. There were 287 donors in 2019 and 208 donors the year before that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBC welcomes the Blood Donation Day initiative by McDonald\u2019s Malaysia, which is now in its fourth year in collaboration with us. Such workplace campaigns encourage the noble practice of blood donation among the employees of McDonald\u2019s Malaysia. As the blood donation drive was opened to the public, NBC is confident that the campaign will create widespread awareness on the importance of blood donation, while encouraging the community to be blood donors. NBC wishes to congratulate McDonald\u2019s Malaysia for consistently organising the blood donation drive and assures that blood donated during the 2-day campaign will be channelled effectively to patient care. NBC also hopes that similar blood donation campaigns and awareness programmes will be organised by other companies and associations, as carried out by McDonald\u2019s Malaysia,\u201d said Dr. Noryati binti Abu Amin, Director, National Blood Center.<\/p>\n<p>As a token of appreciation, McDonald\u2019s Malaysia gave away McDonald\u2019s cash vouchers, McChicken meal sets, and Sundae Cones to all blood donors who turned up to donate blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA, 14 August 2020 \u2013 McDonald\u2019s Malaysia, in continuous support of the government\u2019s call to Malaysians to donate blood regularly, organised a Blood Donation Day on 13 and 14 August 2020. Held annually in collaboration with the National Blood Centre (NBC) under the Ministry of Health (MOH), the blood donation drive was opened to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}