Young students decided to celebrate youth and spring in a different way, and they did so by promoting awareness and solidarity of blood donation.
The lives of many patients depend on the availability of blood in health services, so voluntary and altruistic donation from healthy people is crucial.
The National Center for Blood Services (CENSSA), in commemoration of the spring and youth week, jointly held with the “National College of Capiatá” a day of solidarity and altruism with the donation of blood.
The activity carried out within the framework of the project of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, through CENSSA, called “Heroes of the future”, had 223 volunteer donors who, with this act, demonstrated the importance of social commitment in the voluntary donation of blood.
Also, companies and civil society actors such as SKYTEL, Pastoral Social – Arquidiócesis de la Santísima Asunción, QUIMFA SA and the Jesuitas Foundation joined the celebration of spring and youth week, with the purpose of helping to cover the blood needs of patients: injured, mothers with complications of childbirth, children with leukemia, hemophiliacs and people suffering from different diseases that require it.
Blood is not manufactured, its availability depends on the decision of each donor who extends his arm in a simple, safe and easy act. Donating blood can save up to three lives.
Where to donate?
– Casa del Donante (Spain c / Venezuela): Monday to Friday, from 07:30 to 17:30.
– CENSSA (Gral. Santos c / Herminio Giménez, next to the Trauma Hospital): Monday to Friday, from 07:00 to 18:00, Saturday, Sunday and holidays, from 07:00 to 17:00.
– Hemocenter of the Hospital de Clínicas, Instituto de Previsión Social (IPS) or another hospital that has a blood service.
– Donor House of Ciudad del Este, from 07:00 to 15:00. Contact: 0 983 610 810.
For more information, call 021204668, from the National Center for Blood Services (CENSSA) or go to the new address of Casa del Donante, on Spain c / Venezuela, in the city of Asunción.
Important
Having been vaccinated against COVID-19 does not represent an impediment to donate blood. If you received the Moderna or the Pfizer, you must wait seven days to donate, with the other vaccines available in the country, you must wait four weeks after the vaccination to donate blood.
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