The first medical association of Lviv needs blood donors. It is here that Ukrainians with various types of injuries are helped every day, and some of them urgently need a blood transfusion or its components to save their lives. Blood of groups (I) Rh – and (II) Rh – is urgently needed now.
“Stocks of blood and its components, which are necessary to save patients’ lives, are running out. Now there is an urgent need for donor blood of the first Rh – and second Rh – groups. Come to the city blood service center of the St. Panteleimon Hospital and help our doctors save the lives of patients,” the First Medical Association notes.
Donors are waiting from 09:00 to 12:30 on weekdays at the address: st. Mykolaichuka, 9. Telephone for appointment: 0322581177.
By the way, every healthy person between the ages of 18 and 60 who has no medical contraindications can be a blood donor. Donating blood is safe and even useful, doctors say. After all, it contributes to self-recovery of the body and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
WHO CAN BE A DONOR AND WHAT ARE THE CONTRAINDICATIONS
Every able-bodied Ukrainian over the age of 18 can be a donor. Your weight must be at least 50 kg – otherwise, blood sampling may be dangerous for your health.
To become a donor, you must undergo an appropriate medical examination at a medical facility before donating blood and you must not have any contraindications determined by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Absolute contraindications for donating blood and its components
Regardless of the age of the disease and the results of treatment, blood donors cannot be those with the following contraindications.
INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES
AIDS, carrier of HIV infection, congenital or acquired syphilis, viral hepatitis, positive test result for markers of viral hepatitis, all forms of tuberculosis, brucellosis, typhus, tularemia, leprosy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, echinococcosis, toxoplasmosis, filariasis, ringworm, leishmaniasis .
SOMATIC DISEASES
malignant neoplasms, blood diseases, organic diseases of the central nervous system, complete lack of hearing and (or) speech, mental diseases, drug addiction, alcoholism, cardiovascular diseases (hypertensive disease II-III century, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, arrhythmias, thrombophlebitis , heart defects);
respiratory diseases (bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, emphysema of the lungs, obstructive bronchitis, pneumosclerosis);
diseases of the digestive organs (achylic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease of the stomach and duodenum);
diseases of the liver and biliary tract (chronic liver diseases, including toxic nature and unclear etiology, calculous cholecystitis, liver cirrhosis);
kidney disease (diffuse and focal kidney damage, urolithiasis);
diseases of connective tissue, radiation sickness, diseases of the endocrine system, diseases of the ENT organs (ozen, other acute and chronic severe purulent-inflammatory diseases), eye diseases (high myopia – 5 diopters and more, trachoma, complete blindness, residual effects of uveitis);
skin diseases (psoriasis, erythroderma, eczema, lupus erythematosus, bullous dermatoses, widespread fungal and pustular lesions);
osteomyelitis, surgical interventions for amputation or resection of an organ and transplantation of organs and tissues.
Temporary contraindications for donating blood and its components
If you have diseases that are not included in this list, inform the doctor – the question of admission to donation is decided by the doctor of the blood transfusion institution or the relevant specialists. Taking blood and (or) its components from a donor is allowed only on the condition that the health of the donor will not be harmed.
List of contraindications to donation Elimination from donation on
Transfusions of blood components (with the exception of burn convalescents and persons immunized against the Rhesus factor) 1 year
The period of pregnancy and lactation
1 year after childbirth and at least 3 months after the end of lactation
Operations, including abortions (it is necessary to present a certificate about the nature and date of the operation from a medical institution, or an extract from the outpatient card) 1 year after the operation
Tattooing, ear piercing, piercing, acupuncture treatment 1 year from the end of the procedure
Stay on foreign business trips lasting more than 2 months 6 months
Stay in malaria-endemic countries with a tropical and subtropical climate (Africa, Asia, South and Central America) lasting more than 3 months. 3 years
Contact with hepatitis A patients for 3 months
Contact with patients with hepatitis B, C for 1 year
Transferred infectious diseases (which are not specified in the section “Absolute contraindications”):
– malaria for 3 years
– typhoid for 1 year
– sore throat, flu, acute respiratory viral disease (after recovery) 1 month
– other infectious diseases for 6 months
Acute or chronic inflammatory processes in the exacerbation stage (regardless of their localization), body temperature above 37ºС for 1 month. after the end of the acute period
Allergic diseases 2 months. after the end of the acute period
Tooth extraction 10 days
Vaccination from:
– killed and recombinant vaccines (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, pertussis, etc.)