Scott Worgan is walking 600 kilometres to raise awareness of the importance of blood donations . Login or signup to continue reading Before his 10-year-old daughter Sienna was diagnosed with leukaemia, he thought blood transfusions were mainly for victims of trauma and accidents. "One in three Aussies will need blood during their lifetime, however, only 3 per cent donate today.
My goal is to change this," Mr Worgan said. Donated blood goes to patients with: cancer and blood disease (34 per cent), anaemia (19 per cent), heart, organ and surgeries (18 per cent), stomach, kidney and other diseases (13 per cent). Other blood needs are: fractures and joint replacements (10 per cent), pregnant women, new mothers and young children (4 per cent), road incidents and other traumas (2 per cent).
Scott is walking from his hometown of Inverell to Terrigal - where he lives now. He stopped at the Australian Red Cross Newcastle Donor Centre at Broadmeadow on Friday and is expected to finish his epic walk in Terrigal on Sunday. "I have a personal goal to get 500 people to join our Lifeblood team.
I'm at about 350." These teams enable people to get together as a group of blood donors and earn points for donations. "Our team is Bush to Beach for SJ [Sienna's nickname]," Scott said.
While the walk had been hard and painful, Scott was "eating what I want at the moment". "It's bloody great. The diet is whatever it needs to be to make sure I'm fuelled during the day," he said.
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