Health. On Friday afternoon, August 30, the French Blood Establishment and the Association for Voluntary Blood Donation jointly organized a collection, in the Robert-Genest room. The goal was 58 donations, 42 people came, including five new ones.
At this time, stocks are at their lowest. Saving lives is neither painful nor long. At the entrance, the EFS secretary takes identification and Josette, from the Association pour le don du sang bénévole (ADSB), hands over a questionnaire and a bottle of water to drink immediately. The next step is the voting booth where Rachel Gilard assesses possible incompatible pathologies. The nine ADSB volunteers, led by Vincent Daquin, have set up eight collection stations.
Doctor Peggy Cygler and four nurses first collect six small tubes. They will go to Annecy where the presence of an undesirable product will be detected, determining the fate of the bag. The latter contains 80 ml of anticoagulant which will keep the 400 ml of blood collected in a liquid state. The donor then stays on site for 20 minutes, the volunteers offer them a snack, sweet or salty, a drink, hot or cold.
Pockets taken to Nancy
Once the collection is complete, the bags are taken to Nancy, where the three components, red blood cells, platelets and plasma, will be separated. The shelf life is 42 days, seven days and one year respectively for frozen plasma. The EFS welcomes donors in these premises in the rear car park of the hospital on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and in the afternoons at scheduled sites, on September 24 in the Niederberger room on rue Capitaine-Tassard. Many owe their lives to the 10,000 annual perfusions, and therefore to the donors.
From our correspondent Benoit Gruhier
