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The Cartagena Hemodonation Service, located in the General University Hospital Santa María del Rosell, has about 8,000 donors and has served to make more than 6,200 blood donations during 2019, a period of time in which they have been captured More than 1,500 new people to donate.

The Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, the Lieutenant Mayor and Councilor for the Health Area, Manuel Padín, and the Director of the Regional Hemodonation Center, Vicente Vicente, have visited the facilities of the Hemodonation Center to thank both the efforts of both workers , like that of the entire population that is about to donate.

In addition, it is intended to call for healthy people, without medication, between 15 and 60 years to step forward and become donors.

"Only in the Region of Murcia every day 300 bags of blood are needed to be able to do the daily activity of surgery and those related to those who require periodic transfusions of blood component," said the Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas.

For his part, the mayor of the area of ​​Health, Manuel Padín, has said that it is "absolutely necessary that there is a reserve of blood in the bank, an objective that is being met, and now it is time to fight for the hemodynamics service and greater functioning del Rosell, whose follow-up commission is already underway, "the councilor has also pointed out that" from the municipal government they will support the performance of all the functions that the Hospital may undertake. "

Regarding a greater start-up of the services of the Rosell, Villegas has commented that from the Regional Government they will "try to put the neurorehabilitation service into operation throughout this year and continue the current policy, since it has given very good result the surgical and hospitalization area ".

FLU EPIDEMIC

This Tuesday, during the visit to the Cartagena Hemodonation Center, the Minister of Health has confirmed the tenth death from influenza in the Region of Murcia.

Deaths usually caused by some kind of complication in people suffering from risk factors.

Villegas has ensured the "good service made available to medical centers and hospitals, both for beds and staff" and points out that "in a few days it is expected that flu cases begin to descend."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena