Blood donation: a vital act
Every year, nearly 112.5 million units of blood are collected worldwide, almost half of which are in high-income countries.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Every year, around 112.5 million units of blood are collected worldwide.
Almost 47% of these donations are collected in high income countries.
However, the demand for blood donations is high throughout the world: road accident victims, patients suffering from serious diseases, such as leukemia, thalassemia as well as sickle cell disease, are all patients requiring a blood transfusion.
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You should know that an accident victim may need the blood of 30 donors.
So how do you donate blood?
Who can give it?
Professor Pirenne France,
Medical Director of
the French Blood
of
the Henri Mondor Hospital
.
Professor of Hematology and Transfusion at
the University of Paris Est Créteil
, medical director of
EFS Île-de-France
and head of the INSERM U955 team, team 2, in Créteil.
Dr Yacouba Nebie,
Hemobiologist specializing in Transfusion Medicine at
the National Blood Transfusion Center of Ouagadougou
in Burkina Faso.
Teacher Researcher at Joseph KI-ZERBO University in Ouagadougou.
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Interview with
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