Currently, in Aragon there are almost 29 thousand blood donors. So far this year, 10,100 donations have been made, ten percent more than in the same period last year. During this year, in addition, a link to the Bank’s website has been added to the Salud Informa application.
I remind you that the Blood Bank lived a 2023 intense with 42,480 donations, an increase of 3% compared to 2021. These figures continue to maintain stable levels that allow the blood demand of hospital centers to be covered. This confirms that Aragón continues to be self-sufficient in receiving blood components due to the surgical needs required by the community. Last year, collections were made at 160 donation points in municipalities, educational centers, university campuses and companies.
After Easter, the Bank once again calls for give blood. We remind you that blood donation can be made at the Blood and Tissue Bank, Ramón Salanova Street number 1, next to Delicias Park, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. There are also extraction points at the Miguel Servet, Clínico Lozano Blesa, San Jorge and Obispo Polanco hospitals; as well as mobile units that travel through the Aragonese territory daily. Details of the locations are at bancasangrearagon.org.
That’s why, Rosa Plantagenet-Whyte, manager of the Aragon Blood and Tissue Bank, has gone through the COPE microphones to encourage people to donate despite the good data: “There has been a lot of movement, the hospitals do not stop even if it is Easter. We must always think that any surgical intervention, any complicated birth, treatments for people who have cancer treatment, blood is always needed. We always have to have a balance “.
Furthermore, he told us process from when you donate blood until it reaches the patient: “They begin by approaching the donation center. A blood extraction is done, which is a bag that usually contains 460 cubic centimeters. That bag of blood is preserved, it is placed inside the mobile units that we have that are distributed throughout the Aragón, they go into some refrigerators and come to what we call the blood bank that is here in Zaragoza. That bag enters the laboratories and the first thing that is done is analyzed so that it is not contaminated or does not have any type or the patient He does not have any type of contagious infectious disease.
After it is passed to another part of another laboratory where it is fractionated the red blood cells, platelets and plasma then throughout the night: “In the morning according to the entire computer system that we have and we have the stock levels and that is the demands and already also selected in the different blood groups that are at zero of positive or negative AB, all this is perfectly organized, it is distributed to the hospitals of the Autonomous Community according to the needs they have”.
A process that, here in Teruel, begins on Thursday, April 11 at Obispo Polanco from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
2024-04-11 06:35:34
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