Blood donation

Blood donation is a safe, simple and easy action which is necessary to restore many people’s health or even save lives.

In Galicia, 500 blood donations are necessary each day. For all these reasons, ESN Vigo wants to encourage you to collaborate with the Centro de Transfusión de Galicia (Galician Transfusion Centre) and do your bit to help those people in need.

How are we going to do this? This Tuesday, 24^th April, we will be meeting at 16:30 h in Plaza América to go together to the Nicolás Peña Hospital.

One blood donation can benefit up to three people. You can be a real hero!

Please, remember that not everybody can donate and that you need to bring with you the ID or the passport. In addition, those who want to do it MUST meet the following requirements:

• Being a healthy person, from 18 to 65 years old and weighing more than 50 kg.
• Do not donate on an empty stomach or 2 hours after a heavy meal.
• Do not engage in physical activity within the following 12 hours.

DONATING IS NOT ALLOWED:

• If you have had a piercing, a tattoo, acupuncture, an endoscopy, a catheterisation or a skin or mucosae perforation done in the past 4 months.
• If you have undergone surgery, received a blood transfusion or been in contact with blood in the past 4 months.
• If you have anemia or unbalanced blood pressure.
• If you have been pregnant, had a miscarriage or aborted in the past 6 months.
• If you have had a fever or flu in the past 2 weeks.
• If you have gone to the dentist in the past 7 days.
• If you are taking medication, or if you have had allergy to any medicine in the past year. Please report it to the doctor.
• If you have been vaccinated recently.
• If you suffer (or have suffered in the past) from any kind of serious or chronic illness (heart diseases, kidney diseases, cancer, insulin-dependent diabetes, severe asthma, epilepsy…)
• If you have ever used intravenous drugs.

You will be asked many questions by a doctor, so a little but of Spanish knowledge will be necessary. Please, check the other donation requirements here. We do not want anyone to be left without collaborate!

If you have any kind of doubt, do not hesitate to get in touch with Celtia Valcárcel through Facebook or via email (celtia00@gmail.com)

Remember: this Tuesday, 24^th April, at 16:30 h in the meeting point at Plaza América.

ESN Vigo Team