volunteer for 37 years and more than 150 donations

A donor comes out of the interview with the EFS doctor. He asks her before one of the three nurses installs him: “You prefer the sample on the right or left arm?” »Once the side is chosen, it takes little time for the pouch to start filling with the precious liquid. The first blood drive of the year took place at 2e floor of the Reservoir this Wednesday. “We had never occupied this room for a donation,” points out Dominique Popard, president of the Lunéville voluntary blood donation association. The reason: the main room is still occupied by the covid vaccination center in hibernation!

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Donor family

Among the ten volunteers present, Gérard Barbate has 37 years of service to the association. “In the family, everyone gives blood. I returned in 1984. I took the place of a nephew who was leaving… And I’m still here, ”he says. We can guess a broad smile under the mask of the 73-year-old Lunévillois. “I have known four presidents! », Underlines this retiree from Trailor and former boilermaker. He made around 90 blood donations and many other plasma donations. With humor, he announces having turned his eye during a sample of each and having returned to work after having regained his senses. “I knew the collections at the château in the Livrée room. I gave up to the age limit ”. Today, he mainly takes care of the distribution of posters in town before each collection.

The donations of the day allowed us to collect 150 pockets, a satisfactory figure for the president.

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