Donating blood saves three lives. Collections have slowed down in recent months due to the Covid-19 crisis and stocks are suffering. The French establishment of blood calls for mobilization. Until July 9, fundraising takes place throughout the region.
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“Donate blood for an hour and save three lives”, this is the slogan hammered out for this new blood donation campaign, which began on June 9 and will end on July 9. Everywhere in the Pays de la Loire, collections are organized as part of the operation: “#PrenezLeRelais, 1 month for ALL to give”.
Health crisis: “the blood reserves are not good”
Due to the health crisis, collections have slowed down in recent months. With the lifting of restrictions, the French blood establishment believes it is urgent to replenish stocks again.
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Pascal Morel, medical and research director at the@EFS_dondesang, sounds the alarm on World Blood Donor Day.
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“The reserves are not good, we are really in difficulty since the activity of treating patients has resumed and transfusion is eagerly awaited in hospitals (…) However, donations have fallen by 5% with the crisis sanitary “, says Pascal Morel, medical and research director at the French blood establishment. “What made it difficult, he continues, this is what the health safety rules have imposed. There was in particular the fact of no longer being able to take samples from schools and businesses. ”
12 days of blood reserve in Pays de la Loire
In Pays-de-la-Loire, 650 donations are needed per day to cover needs. In the region, health establishments have only twelve days of reserve. It would take two more to get back to normal, with the help of as many donors as possible.
“It doesn’t hurt at all”
As feedback … “It doesn’t hurt at all, it’s fast, considers one of the 250 donors who went to the Angers Congress Center on Monday, June 14. Including the sample, the snack, the questionnaire, it takes 45 minutes, so I think we are all able to find 45 minutes to donate blood ”.
Save people with cancer, leukemia or accident victims
Once collected, the blood is available the next day for patients who need it. Blood transfusion is essential and vital in the treatment of many pathologies, such as leukemia and cancer, or in the context of significant hemorrhages during an accident or a surgical operation. Indeed, “there is no product capable of completely substituting for human blood. Blood donation is therefore irreplaceable and essential to save a life “, indicates the Nantes University Hospital, on its website.
Having had the Covid does not prevent donating blood
Even people with Covid can give up 14 days after symptoms have gone away. No restriction either, on the vaccination side: “You can get vaccinated in the morning and give your blood in the afternoon or you can give in the morning and get vaccinated in the afternoon, it has no effect at all”, reassures Jean-François Haurillon, donation doctor in Angers.
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– French Blood Establishment (@EFS_dondesang) June 15, 2021
Where can you donate blood in Pays de la Loire?
As part of this one-month operation, various mobile collection points are spread across the region. Every day, they change address, in order to travel the entire territory. To find the nearest collection point and make an appointment (essential), go to this page, from the website of the French blood establishment.
For example, this Tuesday, June 15, the collection points are at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), at the multipurpose room of Ambrières-les-Vallées (Mayenne), at the Stéphane Traineau sports complex. in Mortagne-sur-Sèvre (Vendée), in the Salle de l’Espérance in St-Germain-sur-Moine (Maine-et-Loire) and in the Georges Brassens room in Yvré l’Evêque (Sarthe).
It is also possible to go to the fixed collection sites of the French blood establishment, in the hospitals of Nantes, Angers, Laval, Saint-Nazaire, La Roche-sur-Yon and Le Mans.
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