June 14, 2009 - Donor Day
Sunday, June 14 is celebrated around the world, the World Donor Day, a holiday dedicated to all the volunteers (milioni!) who engage actively and diligently to ensure the health of the less fortunate among the population. Among these volunteers also include a full blood donors in the world to help save lives by providing a direct personal contribution to date of irreplaceable importance, crucial to the functioning of the departments of surgery, intensive care, oncology, medicine, geriatrics etc.. all hospitals.
By collecting blood, the country is always on the cutting edge, because it maintains a number of useful donations just at the limit of coverage of national demand during the year. At the first drop in donations, take the emergency blood: whole departments of the surgeries are closed, as reserve availability only to emergencies. Also this year, AVIS
warns of summer: the donors leave for the holidays and is responsible for the availability. In Trentino the presence of tourists increases exponentially the demand for blood in the summer, yet here we are in difficulty leaving narrow provincial self-sufficiency, so that it can not cope with with the security question.
the earthquake of Abruzzo the exceptional availability of donations from the public has demonstrated the high sensitivity of the Trentino region in times of need. This suggests that the potential supply of blood is much higher than it collects each day.
AVIS at this day we remember that every day on average are 50-60 blood donations (sometimes even three times) and how many calls they are prepared for dramatic events, but exceptional, demonstrating equally during the emergency "normal "every day, giving one, two, three times a year, according to their possibilities.
0 comments:
Post a Comment