CrimeaPRESS reports:
National Donor Day is celebrated in Sevastopol — this significant date is dedicated to those who donate help to complete strangers. Every year more and more people want to donate blood and save someone’s life. Doctors note: one donor helps at least three patients.
Human blood is one of the few remedies that cannot be replaced by drugs. In 2022, our center prepared 6,850 liters of whole blood, of which about half is plasma— the press service of the Government of Sevastopol quotes the head of the blood procurement department of the Sevastopol Blood Center Vadim Antilogov.
The number of honorary donors — those who donated blood 40 or more times free of charge — in Sevastopol is increasing every year, now there are about two thousand. Today there is one more honorary donor.
Both experienced donors and the youngest visitors of the Blood Center admit that they are pleased to know that they are helping someone. On the National Donor Day, they were congratulated by the Deputy Directors of the Health Department Lyubov Semina and Victoria Pertseva. Those present were presented with certificates and words of gratitude. The guests also noted that the institution today carries out a safe collection of blood and its components from a donor, conducts thorough research and ensures the storage of the collected material.
In the new building of the Blood Center, an entire floor is occupied by the department of laboratory diagnostics. Here, with the help of modern equipment, blood is examined: its group, Rh factor, erythrocyte phenotype according to other antigenic systems are determined, and immunological studies are also carried out for HIV antibodies, hepatitis B and C, syphilis. That is, they make the blood as safe as possible for recipients.
In modern medicine, whole blood is practically not used. Therefore, it is divided into components. Each of them has its own expiration date. Plasma has the longest time: frozen — up to three years, at a temperature of -40 degrees. And platelets are stored for only five to seven days.— says Natalia Larchenko, head of the laboratory diagnostics department.
The Blood Center every few years increases the stocks of donor biomaterial by at least 1-1.5 tons. Particular attention is paid to the procurement of thromboconcentrate — the therapeutic, surgical and pediatric services of the city most urgently need it.
Recall that on April 20, 1832, the young St. Petersburg obstetrician Andrey Martynovich Wolf for the first time successfully performed a blood transfusion to a woman in labor with obstetric bleeding. The woman’s life was saved thanks to the competent work of the doctor and the donation of blood from her husband. Today in Russia more than one and a half million people need blood transfusion every year.
source: press service of the Government of Sevastopol
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