The Ministry of Public Health invites the population to donate blood voluntarily to maintain the reserves of the Regional Hemotherapy Center and to be able to supply transfusion services throughout the province.
“A donor can save up to four lives,” explained the director of the Regional Hemotherapy Center, Roxana Ponce.
He added that, “We urgently need donors of all blood types and factors. We ask the people of Salta to come forward to carry out this altruistic act of donating blood.”
Blood is needed for transfusions to anemic patients, transplants, operations, oncological diseases, accidents and hemorrhages.
The components of donated blood are separated so that each patient receives what they need to get better. These include platelets, red blood cells and plasma.
They can donate blood:
- People between 16 and 65 years of age, with a body weight greater than 50 kilos.
- No history of heart, lung, liver, Chagas, oncological, infectious or other potentially risky or harmful disease for the recipient.
They cannot be donors
- Pregnant women or women who are breastfeeding
- Those who have undergone surgery, endoscopy or colonoscopy in the last 6 months.
- Those who have had a piercing or tattoo done in the last 6 months.
Other data
- Those who have received the flu vaccine and have symptoms such as fever, body aches, etc., will be able to donate blood 72 hours after receiving the vaccine.
- Those who have received antibiotic medication must wait 7 days from the last dose to donate.
- People who have had dengue can donate after three months.
- Those who have had hemorrhagic dengue can donate after six months.
- Those who live with people who have symptoms of dengue must wait four weeks to donate.
- A person can donate blood at a minimum interval of two months.
The Hemotherapy Center of Salta is located at Simón Bolívar 687 and donations can be made from Monday to Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. For any questions or concerns, you can call (0387) – 4220455.
The Organization also has a website and accounts on social networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
