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Once again, the ground floor of the Town Hall was filled Thursday for people to contribute their bit in the VI Blood Donation Marathon Cartagena.
He served a total of 369 people, although the end of the day it counted 316 s and effective grants and 47 new donors.
In addition, the novelty was that this time could also be marrow donors.
About 30 did.
The figures for this year have remained prácticament, compared to last year. In the previous edition of Marathon took place effective and 55 360 donations were from new donors.
The SER, the Health Department, the City of Cartagena, the Murciano Health Service and the Regional Blood Donation Center organized this joint initiative under the banner of solidarity SER.
Collect as much blood as possible to these days is the main objective of this campaign.
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0 are negative and A negative blood types are needed more this year, 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 the hospitals, said the head of communications Regional Blood Donation Center, Toni Gomez at the launch of this campaign.
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.
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, carried out two grants to year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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