The team of the Regional Hemotherapy Center (CRH) will carry out tomorrow, Tuesday 27, a day to promote the habitual donation and collect blood of any group and factor in the Universal Church of the northern area of the capital, located at 240 Argentine Army of the Ciudad del Barrio Miracle.
The reception of donations will be made between 9 am and 2 pm, and anyone from the community over 16 years of age may attend.
Volunteers are asked to attend unaccompanied to avoid the concentration of people, carry an identity document, not be fasting and hydrate sufficiently.
On the occasion, CUCAI Salta staff will inform attendees about the donation of bone marrow for transplantation to people with blood diseases, such as leukemia, thalassemia and others. Likewise, potential donors will be registered.
Who can donate
- People between the ages of 16 and 65,
- With a minimum body weight of 50 kilos,
- No history of heart, lung, liver, chagasic, oncological, infectious or other potentially risky disease for the recipient.
They cannot be donors
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- Those who have had surgery in the last 12 months
- Those who have had a piercing or tattoo in the last 12 months.
- Those who have undergone surgery, endoscopy or colonoscopy in the last six months.
Other data
People who have received the COVID-19 vaccine can donate within 72 hours of inoculation, if they do not have symptoms.
Those who have had COVID-19 and have overcome the disease, can donate after 14 days of being discharged
Those who have received antibiotic medication must wait 14 days from the last dose
A person can donate blood with a minimum interval of two months. Men can do it up to four times a year, and women up to three times.
Red blood cells can be kept refrigerated for 35 days; platelets, 5 days in constant agitation at 22 degrees; plasma, 1 year at -40 degrees. This is why donors are permanently needed.
Before making the donation, the volunteer receives clear and precise information, a confidential interview is carried out and a medical professional carries out the clinical control, consisting of taking the pulse, blood pressure, temperature and hemoglobin level.
If the person is able to donate, the extraction is carried out, following strict biosafety regulations.
Permanent need
The Ministry of Public Health reminds the population of the importance of being regular, spontaneous and voluntary donors, without mediating the need for blood for a family member or close friends, since the need for blood products to transfuse patients throughout the province is permanent.
There is great demand for blood for patients throughout the province and the turnout of donors, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is low. This represents a problem, since without people who contribute voluntarily it is impossible to meet the needs.
For this reason, people over 16 years of age in good health are invited to donate spontaneously, attending the Regional Hemotherapy Center, Bolívar 687, from Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., or on Saturdays, from 7 to 12. For more information, you can call 4215020.
–
