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AlmavivA alongside the Italian Red Cross

AlmavivA alongside the Italian Red Cross

30-07-2019

“Blood is not purchased and cannot be produced in a laboratory. It can only be donated. Think about it before leaving on vacation"

We acknowledge the appeal by the Italian Red Cross, with which AlmavivA has collaborated for years in organizing business days dedicated to blood drives. The goal is to guarantee constant availability of blood and blood components even in the hottest months of the year, when the cities empty out and there is a risk of shortages. In particular in Lazio, a region that is still far from being self-sufficient.

In fact, the Italian Red Cross's institutional duty is to contribute to achieving national self-sufficiency in terms of donations of blood and its components, as well as increased transfusional safety, with a capillary information and training operation on donation throughout the territory.

Do you want at least three good reasons to donate blood?

  • Because it saves lives, ensuring that the thousands of people who suffer from blood-related illnesses can count on periodic transfusions and the necessary derived drugs. With every donation, three people who need blood components are assisted.
  • Because blood is not created in a laboratory. It is an essential element for life and it can only be donated.
  • Because you keep tabs on yourself: by donating blood, you are guaranteed to monitor your health conditions.

Transfusions and life-saving treatments with plasma-derived drugs are inserted in the Essential Levels of Assistance, but only thanks to the efforts of donors and their associations can they be guaranteed to patients every day. We are all called to work to support and develop the Italian blood system, recently also recognized as a model to follow by the World Health Organization, which has tasked Italy with organizing the 2020 World Blood Donor Day.

Want to know more?

Go to the release of the Italian blood volunteers inter-association Coordination AVIS – C.R.I. – FIDAS – FRATRES “World Blood Donor Day 2019: the point of view of the donation volunteer associations and federations.”