Health: Lorenzin, donations of blood close to self-sufficiency - Reuters Press Agency

(ASCA) – Rome, June 14 -” In this World Day of the donor want to thank the million and 700 thousand volunteers in Italy for free donate blood and this allows us to raise about $ 3 million in donations each year, a number that brings us closer to self-sufficiency.” So ‘the Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, now visit the children’s hospital Bambino Gesu’ in Rome, where in 2012 only were collected over 16 thousand bags dangue from about 15 thousand donors. A growing trend for the hospital, the main center for collecting blood of Lazio, which this year expects to exceed 20 thousand units’. ” Over the last 6 years – said the minister – we have made giant leaps forward in the collection, but I still feel to tell people to continue to donate blood, a great act that allows you to save the lives of many people, many of whom children”. mpd / rob