• Donate blood and increase the hope and quality of life of patients with fatal diseases, or with complex medical and surgical procedures
«Today more than ever we need you, voluntary blood donation continues in times of COVID-19», with this call to raise awareness among the population, the Secretary of Health of the State Executive Power commemorates «World Blood Donor Day» , one of the most important actions to save lives.
The director of the State Center for Blood Transfusion (CETS), Virginia Peña Hernández, reported that the theme of the 2020 Campaign for World Blood Donor Day is «Safe blood saves lives», and the slogan «Donate blood so that the world is a healthier place. «
«This Sunday, June 14, we commemorate the day of the donor and today more than ever we require the solidarity support of people who are able to donate blood,»
she emphasized.
In addition to all the security processes already known to Banco de Sangre, from the beginning of the quarantine the CETS implements protection measures such as: use of mandatory mouth covers, masks, application of alcohol gel, frequent handwashing on staff and users, healthy distance in all processes and sanitation every two hours in areas and equipment, making blood donation a safe and comfortable process.
This celebration aims to increase blood collection from unpaid donors, provide quality care to donors, promote and apply appropriate clinical use of blood, and monitoring the entire chain of blood transfusion.
«We invite all people to come to our CETS facilities, which is available 365 days a year from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., where we guarantee their safety with all the protection measures by COVID- 19 with filters and sanitary measures implemented by our staff, «insisted Peña Hernández.
She explained that due to the current pandemic donations and blood reserves for transfusions have been reduced by up to 70 percent worldwide, «in the same way in the state of Campeche we are suffering this phenomenon secondary to the restrictions of the healthy distance program and coronavirus quarantine. «
During the January-May 2020 period, CETS Campeche has received three thousand blood donors and through the fractionation, study and quality control processes, more than six thousand certified blood components have been distributed in the Entity’s Hospital Network, but this uptake it represents 70 percent less than that obtained during the same period last year.
Among the requirements to be able to donate blood, it is necessary not to have traveled in the last 15 days to areas of recent local transmission, not to have had contact with someone with symptoms such as fever, cough, flu, headache and muscle pain, not having contact with someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
In addition, a recent photo identification must be presented, be over 18 years old and under 65 years old, weigh more than 52 kg., Not have tattoos or perforations with less than one year, not be pregnant or lactating, not have infections stomach or throat, have a minimum fat fast of 4 hours, and be completely healthy at the time of donation.
