Los hospitals in the Community of Madrid need urgent blood donations of groups ‘A+’, ‘A-‘, ‘O-‘ and ‘B-‘which are found in red alert for urgent donation.
In addition, the Group ‘O+’ reserves are on yellow alertfor donation in the next two or three days, while the ‘AB-‘, ‘AB+’ and ‘B+’ groups are at normal levels, with a recommendation also to donate regularly.
In this way, the Community Transfusion Center In a message on social media, he called for people to donate blood to recover normal reserve levels, which are at 50% of their optimal level.
Hospitals continue to need blood daily for treatments and surgical interventions, around 650 bags of fresh blood daily to guarantee supplies. In the Community of Madrid, around 240,000 donations are made each year and in A surgical intervention can sometimes consume the equivalent of 20 donations..
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In addition, to meet hospital demand, the regional administration needs another 900 daily, taking into account that some components, such as platelets, expire after five days; and 650 bags of fresh blood are needed daily to guarantee stocks.
DONATION, A SIMPLE PROCESS
The basic requirements to be a donor are: be between 18 and 65 years oldweigh more than 50 kilos and be in good health.
It is a simple process that takes no more than 20 minutes and that can be done every 8 weeksas long as it is not done more than 4 times in a 12-month period for men and 3 times for women.
In addition to the Transfusion Centre, located at Avenida de la Democracia s/n, on the corner of Avenida de las Comunidades in the capital, citizens who wish to carry out this gesture have the Mobile Units of the Community of Madrid and the Red Cross, whose locations and opening hours can be consulted on the website comunidad.madrid/donarsangre.
