In the framework of National Volunteer Blood Donor Daywhich is celebrated every November 9this week there will be donation days in different parts of the country and the western area of Greater Buenos Aires is no exception.
This Wednesday 9 in the nearby town of Blackbird there will be a blood donation campaign in the premises of the Honorable Deliberative Councillocated in Bolívar 650. The event, organized in collaboration with the Institute of Hemotherapy of the Province of Buenos Aireswill be held from 8:00 to 13:00 and to participate you need to register at the following link: https://forms.gle/KwBGD9ntsfSJ6gAV7.
In addition, a blood donation day will be held on Saturday 12 from 9.00 to 12.00 DIM Ramos Mejialocated in Of. Rivadavia 14,252. To participate in the campaign, organized together with the hospital innsmust register at the following link: https://forms.gle/dhwrK6XyTkhjNafD6.
In addition to these special days, those who wish can approach the Blood bank of the Morón hospital. For the purpose of celebration, throughout this week, the space where you can also register as a potential bone marrow donor will offer gifts to those who come to donate.
You can also donate without an appointment at the Blood bank of the Posadas hospital (Hemotherapy Service, first floor H). In this case, the hours are from Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 12:30 and on Saturdays from 7:30 to 12:00.
What are the requirements for donating blood?
It is worth remembering that to donate blood you must be between the ages of 16 and 65, weigh more than 50 pounds, and be in good health. In addition, those who attend must do so with an identity document and have breakfast.
In case you have had Covid, 10 days must have passed since discharge. Meanwhile, after the vaccine against this disease must pass 72 hours. In turn, the donor shouldn’t have had tattoos or piercings in the past 12 months nor have had blood-borne diseases (hepatitis, HIV, chagas, syphilis).
Why is this day commemorated?
National Voluntary Blood Donor Day, which joins the world holiday of June 14thit is commemorated every November 9 in homage to the Argentine doctor Dr. AS Luis Agote. It was he who performed, in 1914 at Rawson Hospital, the first transfusion of anticoagulated blood in the world. In this sense, the date seeks promote voluntary and regular blood donation.
