‘Bloody marvellous’ Maurice the world’s oldest blood donor
At the age of 90‚ Johannesburg pensioner Maurice Creswick is still the world’s oldest regular blood donor – a title he has held for the past 11 years. Creswick‚ who donated his first pint of blood in 1944 when he was 18‚ has donated 413 pints - the equivalent of about 52 typical body loads.He earned the title of the world's oldest regular donor in 2005‚ at the age of 79.To mark World Blood Donor Day on Tuesday he threw down the gauntlet to other South Africans when he visited Netcare Milpark Hospital to encourage people to donate blood.Asked what motivated him to keep donating blood‚ the nonagenarian said: “It is because I can do so much for so many people with such little effort.” As one pint of blood could potentially save up to three lives‚ according to the International Red Cross‚ Creswick could have touched up to 1‚239 lives through his donations over the years...
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