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Once again, for this Christmas, start the VI Blood Donation Marathon in Cartagena, with the motto BE solidarity, on Thursday December 19 on the ground floor of the Town Hall.
It is a joint initiative in which the objective is to collect as much blood as possible to these days and it is organized by the SER, the Health Department, the City of Cartagena, the Murcia Health Service and the Centre Regional Blood Donation.
The point of donation will be open from 9 to 14 and from 16 to 21 hours. Between 18 and 65, weigh more than 50 kilos and have good health are the only requirements to participate in this joint action.
Those who have not yet donated may do so by submitting the DNI and donors must present donor card.
It is recommended to those who are going to donate that do not on an empty stomach.
Those who wish may also become marrow donors to donate blood while on the same day after signing a permission.
The minimum donation to donation period is 2 months.
Men can donate up to 4 times a year and women, up to 3.
0 are negative and A negative blood types are needed most, especially when Christmas is approaching. Around this time blood (red cells, platelets and plates) are needed because it is a period of increased activity in hospitals, explains the head of communications Regional Blood Donation Center, Toni Gomez, who added that donating blood is a gift that costs money.
Demand increases because there are days, like 24 and 25 December, in which the mobile unit does not come out, there are more car accidents and even already been scheduled for this year several bone marrow transplants in the Morales Meseguer.
For his part, Councillor for Health, Ángel Nicolás Bernal, Cartagena encouraged to join this initiative in which it is important to show solidarity with others and overcome the odds to other years.
In the last edition took place effective and 55 360 donations were from new donors.
The director of the SER in Cartagena chain, Antonio Rosa, has invited the public to participate in this initiative, which is a gesture that reflects the spirit of Christmas.
A total of 2,636 grants were made in 2012 in the run-up available in Rosell, more than ten thousand in the whole region of Cartagena and of them more than five thousand are active donors, holding two grants per year .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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