He Basque Centre for Transfusion and Human Tissue (CVTTH) has carried out a appeal for the urgent need for blood donation in the Basque Country given that stock is 40-50% below the ideal situation. Blood expires, so it is not possible to generate very high stocks, and reserves are falling, given that Euskadi needs to accumulate blood for about 10 days and is currently half full.Blood cannot be lacking. If this is the case, and in the most extreme case, a large part of the health system could be paralyzed.underlines the person responsible for the Promotion of Blood Donation in Bizkaia at the CVTTH, Iñigo Salaverri.
400 donations are needed dailyalthough in summer They plummet – 30% in July and 50% in August – and it is “very difficult” to go above 300which is why the CVTTH highlights the importance of going to donate, and in summer, given the dispersion of the population due to the holidays, a minimum safety stock is usually used.
In addition, Salaverri warns that Only 2.3% of Basques donate and it is “difficult to find replacements.” And the fact is that every year more donors are lost than are found. There is no replacement. Salaverri indicates that every day there are more people who “retire” from donation and it is “difficult to find a replacement for them”, given that, generally, the old ones tend to be very faithful donors, with 3 or 4 donations a year, while the new ones, normally, tend to donate once or twice a year, so for each regular donor who can no longer donate, two new ones would be needed.
Conventional donation is divided into three different components. The first are red blood cells, which are used for operations, transplants, accidents, bone marrow transplants, etc. Another component is platelets, which are used for cancer patients, heart, liver or bone marrow transplants, etc., while plasma is largely used to manufacture drugs.
