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The complaint of a young Venezuelan woman in Chile went viral after she reported that she was denied the right to donate blood to a relative at the Postal Central, indicating that Chilean donors were required by order of the Ministry of Health. The situation was due to the strict protocol of the Ministry of Health that prevents some foreigners and Chileans who have been in countries with a risk of transmission of diseases such as malaria, the Zika virus, chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever, Ebola and West Nile fever.
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A few days ago, a young Venezuelan woman’s claim on ‘X’ went viral, where she claimed that He was not allowed to donate blood to a relative at the Central Postal Service, in Chile.
“Venezuelans are denied the right to donate blood in Chile. We need eight blood donors at the Posta Central for my cousin and they have to be Chilean by order of the Ministry of Health (Minsal),” he said on the social network.
In that post, he tagged President Gabriel Boric and Minister Ximena Aguilera.
The truth is that the Ministry of Health has a very strict protocol for blood donations, which prevents some foreigners, and Chileans who have been abroad, from carrying out the action.
This regulation states that people who have been in countries where there is a risk of transmission of diseases such as Zika virus, chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever, Ebola and West Nile fever.
According The Third, malaria It is another disease that prevents individuals from donating blood to special banks in our country.
For the above reasons, those who have lived their first 5 years in a country with risk of malaria cannot be donors, or people who have been there for more than six months.
This was explained by Sylvana Ortega, head of the blood bank at the Universidad de los Andes Clinic, to the aforementioned media outlet.
“As Chile is a malaria-free country, there are no preventive programs for the disease and no routine tests are carried out for it. The same is true for blood donations: no malaria tests are carried out on donated blood,” he explained.
“There are patients who are asymptomatic or who may present mild symptoms and who may have the parasite in their blood,” he added.
