The French Blood Establishment in Guadeloupe (EFS) called on Guadeloupeans on Thursday to come and donate blood.
Blood collection in the archipelago does not meet the needs of patients, and stocks are at their lowest throughout the national territory.
At the national level, there are 30,000 bags missing from the reserves to regain the level of security necessary to meet transfusion needs, the EFS warned on Tuesday.
“Locally, we depend on national solidarity and the risk is of no longer being able to transfuse all patients”, explained Dr. Mireille Bordenet, responsible for taking samples.
"However, we have specific needs, particularly with regard to sickle cell disease, a disease that affects many West Indians and people of African origin," says the Doctor.
"However, the blood of Caucasians does not have the characteristics required for the transfusions necessary to treat this disease: we need Guadeloupeans to donate their blood to treat Guadeloupeans".
Need for Guadeloupe donors
Guadeloupe has a shortage of locally collected blood bags.
“We need 12,000 pockets annually, and we only take 9,000,” recalls the doctor.
Especially since Guadeloupe also supplies Guyana, on pockets with specific characteristics, since no sampling is carried out in Guyana, due to “the presence of Chagas disease”.
To cover the needs in Guadeloupe, “it would be enough for each registered donor to travel twice a year”, regrets Nathalie Moulin, communication officer at the EFS Guadeloupe.
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