Blood Donation

Blood donation is a safe, simple and easy action, necessary to restore many people’s health or even save their lives. That is why 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 Wednesday, 18th November, at 5:00 p.m., an ESN Vigo volunteer will be waiting for you at Plaza Independencia (next to Domino’s Pizza) in order to go to the Nicolás Peña Hospital and participate in the blood donations.

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

Please, remember that not everybody can donate. 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 DISALLOWED:

• If you have had a piercing, a tattoo, acupuncture, an endoscopy, a catheterisation or a skin or mucosae perforation done in the last 4 months.
• If you have undergone surgery, received a blood transfusion or been in contact with blood in the last 4 months.
• If you have anemia or uncontrolled hypertension.
• If you have been pregnant, had a miscarriage or aborted in the last 6 months.
• If you have had a fever or flu in the last 2 weeks.
• If you have gone to the dentist in the last 7 days. 
• If you are taking medication, or if you have had allergy to any medicine in the last 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.

More information here

Remember: we will meet on Wednesday, 18th November at 5:00 p.m. at Plaza Independencia (next to Domino’s Pizza) and later go to Nicolás Peña Hospital.