Two of every three people have donated blood for the first time in the Hospital Nisa Pardo de Aravaca.

– on the occasion of the world day of the blood donor Hospital Nisa Pardo de Aravaca has organized a blood donation campaign in collaboration with the Centre for Transfusion of Red Cross

– in just four hours, 22 people came to donate blood, and of them, 68% donated for the first timea very positive development for the Madrid hospital and Red Cross

– in response to the need for blood of the community of Madrid, which increases especially during holiday season, the employees of the Center have joined this solidarity initiative to help save lives

Madrid, June 2012.- more than half of the donors who came last Thursday to collaborate on the special day campaign World blood donor organized by the Red Cross transfusion centre and Hospital Nisa Pardo de Aravaca were first-time. In just four hours twenty-two people have gone to help cover the need for blood increases considerably in during holiday season.

Manuel Vilches, director gerente del Hospital Nisa Pardo de Aravaca.

Manuel Vilches, director of the Hospital Nisa Pardo de Aravaca, has also joined the Red Cross initiative in this special campaign and said donate blood is a solidarity action that costs nothing, with only twenty minutes of our time can help save lives. ”

according to data from the center of Transfusion of cross

Reda traffic accident may require up to 30 donations amounting to 30 bags of blood of 30 people who have donated. And a leukemia patient may need up to 250 bags in a treatment. For all of them they remind us the need for donors, since blood can not be manufactured, has expiration date, and only obtained from the generous and altruistic gesture of solidarity people.