Friday, June 14, 2013

Health: Bambino Gesu ', 16 thousand blood bags, 2012, +20% in 2013 - AGI - Journalistic Agency Italy

16:09 June 14, 2013 Into (AGI) – Rome, June 14 – There were more than 16 thousand bags of blood collected in 2012 pediatric hospital Bambino Gesu ‘. Nearly 10 thousand have covered the basic domestic needs of the hospital, the remaining six thousand were allocated to emergencies in the region Lazio. On the occasion of World Blood Donor Day, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesu ‘has disclosed some information about blood donation in 2012 also announced that in the first four months of 2013, were already’ collected more than 5,400 bags of blood and that by the end of the year is estimated to reach 22 thousand units’, with an expec ted increase donations by 20%.
In addition to responding to increasing demands for blood at the regional level, have announced the vertices of ‘hospital, at the headquarters of Palidoro will be’ doubled the commitment to solidarity ‘: starting next week, in fact, the collection will be two days per week, on Tuesdays’ and Thursdays’. On the occasion of the World Day, the Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, visited the hospital. “Over the last year, the donation of blood and ‘become more and more’ personalized – said Sergio Rutella, Head of Service immunotrasfusionale of the Child Jesus’ – the decision as to which to donate blood product (whole blood, red cells, platelets , plasma or combinations of red blood cells, platelets and / or plasma) and ‘always shared with the donor and’ based on their clinical characteristics.’s activities ‘hospital transfusion – he added -’ ; mainly directed to small suffering from oncohaematological diseases or undergoing cardiac surgery. ” Accompanied visits the Form interdisciplinary Advanced Therapies, Department of Onco-hematology pediatric care unit where subintensiva are performed over 100 procedures of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation year, the minister met some young patients and has seen how the children with oncological diseases are among the main recipients of blood transfusions carried out within the Bambino Gesu ‘and, therefore, of the’ Service immunotrasfusionale which refers to the Department of Oncology. In view of the celebrations of this day, the children in the playroom of the hospital have made drawings that were then donated to the minister. (AGI).

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